Natural selection Quote by John Joy Download Open image ““If you believe in natural selection, you are a racist.”” — John Joy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Natural selection Nature Philosophy Racism
“Several of the intellectual barriers erected many years ago to combat racism now stand in the way of studying the recent evolutionary past. These… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“Because of these divisions in the human population, anyone interested in recent human evolution is almost inevitably studying human races, whether they wish to… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“Whether or not any of us become racists is a choice we make. And we are called to choose again and again where we… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The evolution of species by natural selection is a proven fact. That debate is well and truly over.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Race, let's remember, is a social invention and a cultural identification, not a biological reality.” — Victoria E. Bynum Copy Share Image
“Maybe at birth everyone should be given to a family of a different race to be raised. Maybe that would solve racism once and… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Racism demands an artificial and divisive construction of humanity, in terms of how I make sense of others and also how I envision myself.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“there is every reason to suppose that people living in agrarian societies were subject to intense forces of natural selection. But what traits were… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Once, on a walk by a river- Eskdale in low reddish sunlight, with a dusting of snow- his daughter quoted to him an opening verse by her favourite poet. Apparently, not many young women loved Phillip Larkin the way she did. 'If I were to construct a religion/ I should make use of water.' She said she liked the laconic… — Ian McEwan Copy Share
I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe that evolution, including the principle of natural selection, is one of the tools used by God to create mankind. Mankind is then a participant in the creation of the universe itself, so that we have a… — Christopher Langan Copy Share
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of the complexity of those found in the cell. ID specifically denies this, predicting that in the absence of intelligent input no such systems would develop. So Darwinism and ID make clear, opposite predictions of what we should find… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps as evidence that God designed your mind to be so receptive to Him. Or, just maybe, you will come to acknowledge that, like the rest of us, you are a hopeless pawn in one of natural… — Jesse Bering Copy Share
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is… — Charles Darwin 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
“Fears were learned, but they were also inherited. Natural Selection. Run from the lion. Jump away from the tiny, poisonous insects. They exist for… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
