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By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.

Change itself is changing. The process of evolution itself is evolving. There is a meta-evolution, or a metachange that is taking place. And in that process what you see is actually an increasing contrast between change and the eternal or the unchanging.

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.

Choice is the engine of our evolution ... if you choose unconsciously, you will evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you will evolve consciously

Choice is the engine of our evolution.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.

Conscious evolution means having the desire to evolve.

Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.

Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are so tiny as to require a 'miracle' for spontaneous generation tantamount to a theological argument.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist in 1837; rather it was his evolutionary views that allowed him, retrospectively, to understand the complex case of the finches.

Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks.

Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the new features as adaptive to environments. And that's a perfectly good principle. The problem is that there are many evolutionary biologists who view everything that happens in evolution as directly evolved for adaptive benefit. And that just doesn't work. Whenever you build a structure for adaptive reasons, the structure is going to exhibit properties that have nothing to do with adaptation. They're just side consequences.

Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.

Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.

Darwinan evolution is limited to the biological aspect but before that happened the molecules themselves had to evolve to enable this further (biological) evolution.

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!

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.

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.

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.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

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

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.

Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.

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.

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

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

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.

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.