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Evolutionary Quotes by Phillip E. Johnson
- Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists…
- Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
- The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian…
- Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing…
- In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have…
- Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex…
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- The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma
- One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget.… — Candace Pert
- Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make… — David Simon
- People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage… — Anna Quindlen
- The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have… — Kenneth E. Boulding
- Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the… — Michael Denton