Darwinism Quotes - Page 2

• A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown, the problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete, but they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith "in the validity of Maxwell's or Boltzmann's equations," and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.

  Primo Levi

  Strong, War, Acceptance

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• The invalidity of Darwinism and the actuality of creation are scientific facts.

  Harun Yahya

  Facts, Creation, Actuality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.

  Jonah Goldberg

  People, Leader, Intellectual

  "Do Liberals Live Under A 'Tyranny Of Cliches'?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2012.

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• Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the world's greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.

  Richard Weikart

  Holocaust, Atrocities, Followers

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• Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side. And they don't want to. If we don't kill them or release them, we have but one choice. Call them monsters and isolate them.... I’ve spoken to many predators over the years. They always exhibit amazement that we do not hunt them. And that when we capture them, we eventually let them go. Our attitude is a deliberate interference with Darwinism - an endangerment of our species.

  Andrew Vachss

  Attitude, Years, Choices

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• What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

  George Gilder

  Intelligent, Design, Doe

  "The evolution of George Gilder". Interview with Joseph P. Kahn, www.boston.com. July 27, 2005.

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• Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed.

  Norman Macbeth

  Practice, Tree, Purpose

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• The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged into the best database of the biological literature. A search for keyword ''evolution'' yielded 24,000 hits in the last decade. A search for ''intelligent design'' yielded not a single piece of research. Evolution by natural selection remains the basis of every successful biological research program.

  Chet Raymo

  Religious, Successful, Intelligent

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• Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Philosophy, Support, Products

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• We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics of a form of economic Darwinism that now governs much of the world. This system must be demystified, politicized, and recognized for the ways in which it has come to pose a dire threat to democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Political Language, Democracy, Needs

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Im not advocating social Darwinism, I am witnessing actual Darwinism.
  If you are in a camp with a bunch of campers, and a bear attacks, you don't have to be faster than the bear.
  You only have to be faster than the slowest camper

  Michael Ruppert

  Bears, Social, Advocating

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• Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.

  Neal Ascherson

  World, Evolution, Aspects Of Life

  "Survival of the fittest Darwinians" by Neal Ascherson, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2004.

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• I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.

  Karl Popper

  Research, Evolution, Metaphysical

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.195, Routledge

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• In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religion, Atheism, Information

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• There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I could easily imagine trying to go against Darwinism.

  Richard Dawkins

  Trying, Want, Imagine

  "Darwin’s Dangerous Disciple". Interview with Frank Miele, www.skeptic.com. 1995.

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• Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.

  Ben Stein

  Mean, Media, Alive

  "Mariah Carey's New Album: First Review" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2008.

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• Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

  David Berlinski

  Thinking, Nazism, Phenomenon

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• There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

  Lee Strobel

  Religion, Atheism, Way

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• In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed and confounded by the supreme constructive ingenuity revealed not only in the retina and in the dioptric apparatus of the vertebrates but even in the meanest insect eye. ... I felt more profoundly than in any other subject of study the shuddering sensation of the unfathomable mystery of life.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Eye, Science, Research

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1989). “Recollections of My Life”, p.576, MIT Press

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• The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Essence, Raw Materials

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather, it is the opposite of Darwinism, which says life evolved by an utterly unguided, undirected mechanism. If god directed the process of evolution, or rigged the universe to produce complex life, then that is not Darwinism - it is intelligent design.

  Michael Behe

  Intelligent, Opposites, Design

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• I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Genes, Bigs

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition”, p.191, OUP Oxford

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• In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Two, Race, Europe

  "Europe’s New Anti-Semitism" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Prayer, Teaching, School

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• People have accused me of many things: racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, intolerance, anti-Darwinism and anti-homosexualism [sic]. Well, I tell those people that there was someone else who was accused of things...our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I rest my case.

  Jerry Falwell

  Jesus, Racism, People

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