“There are many subtle variants of theistic evolution, but a typical version rests upon the following premises: The universe came into being… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“Naive Darwinists, including many capitalists, have self-servingly argued that oppression of the weak and the poor is a justified application of natural… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
“Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Now consider the tortoise and the eagle. The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The Kalam Cosmological Argument, The Fine-Tuning Argument, and The Local Fine-Tuning Argument all do an end-run around the issue of special creation… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“I need not point out that being redheaded is not a maladaptive condition. It’s a very lovely condition. It is an absurdity,… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“1.Organisms are algorithms. Every animal – including Homo sapiens – is an assemblage of organic algorithms shaped by natural selection over millions… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Unemployment, hard times, were growing in 1914. Could guns divert attention and create some national consensus against an external enemy? It surely… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“progress—like those cartoons that begin with an ape and end with a man sitting at a computer—now gets lost in a hundred… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could… — Maurice Wilkins Copy Share Image
Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
“For evolution to be true, there would have been innumerable transitional forms between different types of creatures. Therefore, for every known fossil… — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
