Compatible Quote by Elliott Sober Download Open image “Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory.” — Elliott Sober ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compatible Deism Theory
Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe or of… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Deism claims that God creates the universe and the laws of nature and then is hands-off, with everything that subsequently happens in nature being… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I think that some "interventionist theisms" are compatible with evolutionary theory. (By "intervention," I don't mean that God violates laws of nature; I mean… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before. — Wolfgang Smith Copy Share Image
I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination. — John Ambrose Fleming Copy Share Image
It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time. — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
From the fact that E is evidence for T and the fact that T entails M, it doesn't follow that E is evidence for… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Evolutionary game theory was originally developed as an alternative to the hypothesis of group selection; now it is clear that game theory models postulate… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an example; it… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do not. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time arguing that the theory of group selection is not the stupid, pernicious doctrine that many biologists once… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Group selection and individual selection are just two of the selection processes that have played important roles in evolution. There also is selection within… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in biomedicine has… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
I don't think we have learnt to keep within the limits. They are quite elastic but there is a point beyond which they will… — Michael Meacher Copy Share Image
“Who knows what goes on in a marriage? Even my parents, who had a compatible marriage, had their points of contention. They had figured… — Ranjani Rao Copy Share Image
When I did find guys with whom I was very sexually compatible, trying to figure out how romance worked... when you're a gay guy… — Guy Branum Copy Share Image
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one… — Erik Wemple Copy Share Image
The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.' — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
