Evolution Quote by Richard Dawkins

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

— Tom Stoppard

“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

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an…

— Peter Singer

The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in motion but…

— Richard Dawkins

“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

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

— Herman Bavinck

“(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…

— Henry M. Morris III

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 arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

— Herbert Read

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

— Winston Churchill