“Philosophers have long regarded intentionality as a puzzling phenomenon, for it is hard to see how it can arise in a purely… — Samir Okasha Copy Share Image
“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health.… — Charles Darwin 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
“That meant that fully half of the guests at the El Dorado weren't who they were supposed to be. As a fillip… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“From my college courses and my reading I knew the various names that came at the end of a line of questions… — Wendell Berry 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
“It will be noticed that the fundamental theorem proved above bears some remarkable resemblances to the second law of thermodynamics. Both are… — Ronald A. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of it, for it… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
“In Paley's famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time,… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective… — Jesse Bering Copy Share Image
Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
“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
“I am drawn to a fourth alternative, natural teleology, or teleological bias, as an account of the existence of the biological possibilities… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
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