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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study…
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
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All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be…
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I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
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On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist…
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Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.
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A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
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There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual…
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and…
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores…
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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one…
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as…
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Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a…
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Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very…
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The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a…
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Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number…
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I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but…
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The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well…
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The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world…
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Being part of the Fresh Healthy Vending team and the corporate-owned operations division has been incredible thus far. It has given me…
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