Best 1587 quotes in «evolution quotes» category

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.

Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered.

Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction.

Each is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God — not in the laws themselves, except as his means of revealing himself. For that same reason, human science cannot discover God. For human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, it works with its back to him, and is always leaving him — his intent.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

E-Motion will have a very positive impact on the evolution of human consciousness

Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.

...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred.

Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults

Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God

Evolution is your solution.

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.

Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Evolution is smarter than you are.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

Evolution cannot be brought about by the use of dynamite.

Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells.

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

Evolution is cleverer than you are.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.