Character Quote by Peter Singer

“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

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

— Tom Stoppard

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

— Richard Dawkins

I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a…

— Daniel Dennett

“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral code to…

— Jasper T. Scott

“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“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

Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or violent, they…

— Jerome Kagan

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

There's a reason evolution is a hot-button issue. It's not just a matter of science, either. It's a matter of the big questions in…

— Frank Peretti

“Evolution is dismissive of the eternity of moral duty and moral laws.”

— Herman Bavinck

The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it…

— Elizabeth S. Anderson