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The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was…
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Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.…
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All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new…
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Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of…
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Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one…
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The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it…
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All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek,…
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Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two…
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To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet…
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People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.
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I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species.…
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Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
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The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences…
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The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our…
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that…
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It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach…
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One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything…
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French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not…
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Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
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