Evolution Quotes - Page 31

• No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Matter, Argument

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.246, Crown Forum

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• Even if evolution were true, it wouldn't disprove God. God has performed more spectacular feats than evolution. It's not even a daunting challenge to a belief in God. If you want something that complicates a belief in God, try coming to terms with Michael Moore being one of God's special creatures.

  Ann Coulter

  Want Something, Challenges, Special

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.199, Crown Forum

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• I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions...

  Ann Coulter

  Rosters

  "Exclusive Interview: Coulter Says Book Examines ‘Mental Disorder’ of Liberalism". Interview with Lisa De Pasquale, humanevents.com. June 6, 2006.

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• Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and I need them to admit the historical existence of George W. Bush. If your party can run the nation for eight years and then have a national convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, or Tom DeLay, you're not a political movement, you're the witness protection program.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Party, Years

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• In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of the hierarchy which do not flow naturally from any sort of random undirected evolutionary process. If the hierarchy suggests any model of nature it is typology and not evolution. How much easier it would be to argue the case for evolution if all nature's divisions were blurred and indistinct, if the systema naturalae was largely made up of overlapping classes indicative of sequence and continuity.

  Michael Denton

  Class, Would Be, Finals

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• The car is undoubtedly quicker and more balanced. The traction and braking can still be improved a bit but there's been a good evolution already from three weeks ago.

  Rubens Barrichello

  Car, Three, Week

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• This entire process of stellar evolution is by natural process alone. We do not have to invoke Divine intervention at any stage in the history of the life-cycle of the stars that we observe.

  Hugh Ross

  Stars, Natural, Divine

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• One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.

  Marshall Sahlins

  Night, Humanity, Age

  Marshall Sahlins (2013). “Stone Age Economics”, p.38, Routledge

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• The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control of education by religious authority. The attempts to ban the teaching of evolution or other scientific theories -- a feeble echo of medieval church tyranny and hostility to learning, but an echo nonetheless are serious threats to freedom of inquiry and should be vigorously combated.

  S. T. Joshi

  Religious, Atheist, Teaching

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• The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Innovation, Important, Sound

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• I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

  Aldo Leopold

  Thinking, Land, Community

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.190, Oxford University Press

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• Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

  Tom DeLay

  Inspiring, Mother, Teaching

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• The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

  Betty Friedan

  Feminist, Revolution, States

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Helping, Giraffe

  Interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show", September 13, 2005.

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• I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic idea, which might just be an illusion, a sense of depth or continuity. I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

  Laura Marling

  Character, Unique, Technology

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• Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Maturity, Men

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud (Lecture 35 "A Philosophy of Life"), 1933.

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• The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.

  Will Durant

  Religious, Father, House

  "Story of Philosophy".

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• The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Law, Strongest

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.97, Hachette UK

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• One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

  Peter Gabriel

  Artist, Ideas, Pieces

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• History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Flames, Soul, States

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 57), 1986.

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• There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real, complex biochemical system either did occur or even might have occurred.

  Michael Behe

  Real, Book, Scary

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• All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Book, Teaching, America

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• Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps already living in Europe while we emerged in Africa... In other words, we are an improbable and fragile entity, fortunately successful after precarious beginnings as a small population in Africa, not the predictable end result of a global tendency. We are a thing, an item of history, not an embodiment of general principles.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Cousin, Successful, Science

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History".

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• The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mistake, Diagnosis, Victim

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• Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of aggression, only at the time of ovulation. Why has sexual responsiveness become nearly continuous? Unusually frequent sexual activity between males and females served as the principle device for cementing the pair bond.

  E. O. Wilson

  Pairs, Principles, Males

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