About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us.… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
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The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I think. I think sages are the growing tip of the secret impulse of evolution. I think they… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Things do look pretty grim, but I think there are more laughs in Hellboy in Hell than there are in B.P.R.D.: Hell… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
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The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Many families would like to avoid burdening future generations with inherited diseases such as haemophilia or severe developmental disorders. But most would… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
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The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis,"… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Turning hard material (e.g., bones) into fossils is easy in a lab setting, but in 1993, scientists were even able to make… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“Intelligent design theorists have learned a few lessons from the failures of their predecessors and have devised a more sophisticated strategy to… — Robert T. Pennock Copy Share Image
Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally… — John Spiers Copy Share Image
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“I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me had asked to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
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Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
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I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ...… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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