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Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy,…

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Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan…
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange…
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence…
The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of…
Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of…
The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.
Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a…
An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery…
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human…
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

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These transcending truths restructure our understanding of ourselves and of the universe and bring within our view resplendent reality. To be seen… — Neal A. Maxwell
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Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures. — Martin Luther

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