“Although the vast majority of research in evolutionary biology is focused on adaption, a general theory for the population-genetic mechanisms by which complex adaptations are acquired remains to be developed.”

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S., “Scaling expectations for the time to establishment of complex adaptations”, September 7, 2010, doi:10.1073/pnas.1010836107.
http://www.pnas.org/content/
early/2010/08/30/1010836
107.abstract

“Dr Rose said: 'The tree
of life is being politely buried – we all know
that. What's less accepted is our whole fundamental view of biology needs
to change.'
He says biology is vastly more complex than we thought and facing up to this complexity will be
as scary as the conceptual upheavals physicists had
to take on board in the early 20th century.”

The Telegraph UK, “Charles Darwin's tree of life is 'wrong and misleading' claim scientists,” January 22, 2009.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
science/4312355/Charles-
Darwins-tree-of-life-is-wrong-
and-misleading-claimscientists.
html

“The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. Wherever we go exploring in the world around us, we find mysteries. Our planet is covered by continents and oceans whose origin we cannot explain. Our atmosphere is constantly stirred by poorly understood disturbances that we call weather and climate. The visible matter in the universe is outweighed by a much larger quantity of dark invisible matter that we do not understand at all. The origin of life is a total mystery, and so is the existence of human consciousness. We have no clear idea how the electrical discharges occurring in nerve cells in our brains are connected with our feelings and desires and actions even physics, the most exact and most firmly established branch of science,
is still full of mysteries.”

Theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, “How We Know,” New York Review of Books, March 10, 2011.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/mar/10/how-we-know/?page=1

"In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.”

Albert Einstein, “The Expanded Quotable Einstein”, Princeton University, page 214.

“The most accurate study so far of the motions of stars in the Milky Way has found no evidence
for dark matter in a large volume around the Sun. According to widely accepted theories, the
solar neighbourhood was expected to be filled with dark matter, a mysterious invisible substance
that can only be detected indirectly by the gravitational force it exerts. But a new study
by a team of astronomers in Chile has found that these theories just do not fit the observational facts. This may mean that attempts to directly detect dark matter particles on Earth are unlikely to
be successful.”

European Southern Observatory, “Serious blow to dark matter theories?” April 18, 2012.
http://www.eso.org/
public/news/eso1217/

"Observed in this manner, the brain's overall complexity is almost beyond belief, said Smith. 'One synapse, by itself, is more like a microprocessor -- with both memory-storage and information-processing elements --
than a mere on/off switch. In fact, one synapse may contain on the order of 1,000 molecular-scale switches. A single human brain has more switches than all the computers
and routers and Internet connections on Earth,'
he said."

Stanford University Medical Center, "Stunning Details of Brain Connections Revealed", Novermber 17, 2010, ScienceDaily.com.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
releases/2010/11/101117
121803.htm