“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can't stop thought at all, then you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Genes are not destiny. They may define some of your physical features and give you a tiny head start on some things,… — Jamie Le Fay Copy Share Image
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Change itself is changing. The process of evolution itself is evolving. There is a meta-evolution, or a metachange that is taking place.… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
“Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the acestor of all chimpanzees, the other is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You know the theory of cell irritability?. If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“ Johnson is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings… — Rudolph Schoenheimer Copy Share Image
“So here we find that the animals, and the plants, the vegetation, became living souls, and were created spiritually before they were… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Science words,” I warned. “When you say ‘hemoglobin’ I just think of little Irish tricksters who live in caves, or Lord of… — Temple West Copy Share Image
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What I mean is, if you look at the behavior of an animal and ask, "Well, why did it do that?" and… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come… — Frank B. Salisbury Copy Share Image
Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity,… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
“Cambrian animals were not particularly large at first, but they were plentiful and innovative. Jaws appeared. Eyes appeared. Nature began experimenting with… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
“Thus transcription factors regulate genes. What regulates transcription factors? The answer devastates the concept of genetic determinism: the environment.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly"… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
You are designed to reinvent and re-create yourself, over and over again. And, you are here-whether you want to acknowledge it or… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“In Victorian times, one of the more serious reasons for opposing Darwin was the fear that his theories would lead to the… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Oh, sure... I was trying to make to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image