Religion Quote by David C. Stove Download Open image ““Sociobiology, then, is a religion: one which has genes as its gods. Yet”” — David C. Stove ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Religion
“Sociobiology is not incomprehensible, but it is one of the religions which are obviously false. The” — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“religion arises from culture; spirituality arises from biology.” — George E. Vaillant Copy Share Image
“The second irony of evolutionary biology is that this transubstantiation of natural theology into the grand narrative of natural selection has itself taken the… — Abigail Lustig Copy Share Image
“There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the course of life, all such systems (i.e., the different evolutionary ridges) are somewhat functionally interdependent, as are components within each system (i.e.,… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
“There is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.” — John C. Eccles Copy Share Image
“Because science and religion make odd bedfellows whose offspring is usually malformed,” — Robert P. Lanza Copy Share Image
“I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism… — Michael Cox Copy Share Image
“It has turned out, in fact, to be far harder to translate teleological into non-teleological language than had been anticipated by philosophers; or at… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Darwinians have always owed their readers a translation manual that would "cash" the teleological language which Darwinians avail themselves of without restraint in explaining… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“New religionists, such as Williams, Dawkins, and Wilson, regard people and all other organisms as the helpless puppets, tools, or vehicles, of hidden purposive… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Now, why is it that the idea of intention keeps turning up in explanations of adaptation, intruding even into ones where it is supposed… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Sociobiology is not incomprehensible, but it is one of the religions which are obviously false. The” — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“If "final causes" means purposes, or purposive activities, then Darwinism not only does not "expel" them: it builds them into the very foundation of… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Nor have any Darwinians ever given, to this day, any such reconciliation of their theory with the teleological language which they employ as freely… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“sociobiologists are not merely willing, but devoted, "Slaves of the Gene."" They believe that an organism-a man, say-is epiphenomenal to his genes: an effect,… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Darwinians, then, have never paid, or even acknowledged, the debt they have all along owed the public: a reconciliation of their teleological explanations of… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“In fact this ultimate degree of Darwinian faith, which blinds the faithful to even the most obvious facts of human life, is far commoner… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“ALTRUISM WAS, from the very start, a problem for the Darwinian theory of evolution, if not something worse than a problem. As a result,… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
“Namely, that for every once that Dawkins says that genes are not purposive, he says a hundred things (many of which I have quoted)… — David C. Stove Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
