Biology Quote by Herman Bavinck Download Open image ““Evolution is dismissive of the eternity of moral duty and moral laws.”” — Herman Bavinck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biology Character
“Evolution, therefore, cannot account for the origin of our moral feelings, let alone for the fact that we all believe there are external moral… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a part of nature. The world has strayed away from God, and now interprets its conception for the benefit of blissful ignorance.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“Evolution is more about the condition of the heart of a man who does not want to acknowledge God than it is about the… — John Yates Copy Share Image
“(7) Evolution contradicts the scientific law that no effect can be greater than its cause, since it assumes that intelligence was developed from non-intelligent matter, that morality was evolved from nonmoral processes, that love and other emotional qualities came out of unfeeling chemicals, that infinitely complex structures arose from simple beginnings, and that spiritual consciousness began out of inert molecules.” — Henry M. Morris III Copy Share
“The moral of the story is this: It takes an ill-advised mix of ignorance, arrogance, and profit motive to dismiss the wisdom of the human body in favor of some random notion you’ve hatched or heard and branded as true. By wisdom I mean the collective improvements of millions of years of evolution. The mind objects strongly to shit, but… — Mary Roach Copy Share
“Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself, in its… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Man can as little make propitiation for his sin as he can forgive it himself. But God can do both, atone and forgive; he… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves . .… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“revelation always supposes that man is able to receive impressions or thoughts or inclinations from another than this phenomenal world, and in a way… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to satisfy the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The truth and value of Christianity do not depend on the fruits which it has borne for civilization and culture: it has its own… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“if sin bears an ethical character, then redemption is possible, and conversion is in principle the conquest of sin, the death of the old… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share
“Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability… — Hideaki Sena Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient their research in a given direction, whether it be in the field of ecology, ethology, sociology, demography (dynamics of populations), genetics (so-called evolutionary genetics), or paleontology. This intrusion of theories has unfortunate results: it deprives observations… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share
“A note of caution: epigenetics is also on the verge of transforming into a dangerous idea. Epigenetic modifications of genes can potentially superpose historical and environmental information on cells and genomes—but this capacity is speculative, limited, idiosyncratic, and unpredictable: a parent with an experience of starvation produces children with obesity and overnourishment, while a father with the experience of tuberculosis,… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around… — Sara Maitland Copy Share
We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it,… — Tom Atlee Copy Share Image
