Quotes of: Evolution Keyword

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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, and the one God becomes the incredible sh...

Debunking Darwin's God: A Case Against BioLogos and Theistic Evolution

Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first - evolution - because a good understanding of our universal roots and of our place in the cosmic scheme of things will he...

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.

The Evolution of Mara Dyer

There is no truth," Stephanie said mysterously. "Only perspectives.

The Evolution of Mara Dyer

Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture fo...

Donald Johanson

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

Stephen LaBerge

To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant—inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.

The Evolution of Mara Dyer

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BCE, would ...

Why Evolution Is True

There is another kind of variation that does not involve the genome at all, and is therefore not heritable. Yet it can produce what looks like evolution. Indeed, the results look so much like evolution that for all we know some of the best examples o...

Lee Spetner

Ever since about 3.8 billion years ago, when the first cells began quivering in the primordial ooze, Evolution has produced a nonstop parade of inflatable noses, bizarre genitalia, awkward feeding habits, aggressively antisocial tendencies, and mucus...

WTF, Evolution?!: A Theory of Unintelligible Design

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

The Evolution of Mara Dyer

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.

Greg Graffin

They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.

The Evolution of Mara Dyer

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin