Creation and evolution Quote by George Gaylord Simpson Download Open image “Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind” — George Gaylord Simpson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creation and evolution Evolution Evolution of man Materialistic Men Mind Natural Nature Process Psychology Results
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies… — Ruth Nanda Anshen Copy Share Image
“The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Mans nature indicates that he was created for three things: To think, to worship and to work. But thinking is not enough. Men are… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Man, by means of the imagination, involuntarily contemplates his inner nature; he represents it as out of himself. The nature of man, of the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
“The passion for naming things is an odd human trait. It is strange that men always feel so much more at ease when they… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families,… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can only be doubted by those who are ignorant… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe. — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image