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This chain of human ancestors was totally unknown to Darwin. He could not have even dreamed of such a flood of proof and truth.

— Henry Fairfield Osborn Evolution and Religion in Education (1926)

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We have to be reminded over and over again that Nature is full of paradoxes.

The Evolution Deceit : The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism (2001)

Direct observation of the testimony of the earth ... is a matter of the laboratory, of the field naturalist, of indefatigable digging among the ancient archives of the earth's history.

Every breath you draw, every accelerated beat of your heart in the emotional periods of your oratory depend upon highly elaborated physical and chemical reactions and mechanisms which nature has been building up through a million centuries.

The Earth Speaks, clearly, distinctly, and, in many of the realms of Nature, loudly, to William Jennings Bryan, but he fails to hear a single sound.

The Earth Speaks to Bryan (1925)

But the voice of anatomy, like the voice of all nature, never reaches the mental ear of the Great Commoner. It is the novel province of anatomy to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the structure, the origin and the history of man.

Evolution and Religion in Education : Polemics of the Fundamentalist (1926)

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