Evolution Quote by Talcott Parsons Download Open image “Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.” — Talcott Parsons ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evolution Progress Sometimes
"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“God did not create evolution--evolution created God. The evolution of religion is as follows: animism--polytheism--monotheism--agnosticism--atheism. As history progresses, people worship fewer and fewer gods,… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
“He remembers that it was said to him, "Our ancestors were animal forms." But he does not remember that these forms were gods. This… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the early theories… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed a flood… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“evolution is just a fancy faceless god invented for people who don't believe in magic.” — Clayton Baker Copy Share Image
“Logic said that at some point he must’ve been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism. — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper. — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
I rap when I'm rich. I rap when I'm broke. I rap when I'm bullshit in the street. I rap about only having one… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
“A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only… — David G. McAfee 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… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,… — Tom DeLay 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
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The next evolution of content marketing is not more content; it's better distribution. — Chris Penn Copy Share Image
Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process… — Lily Montagu Copy Share Image
