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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.”

Firsts Book Would Be America Suffering Three Written Teaching Evolution Scary Verses Genesis

Author:William Jennings Bryan

“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.”

“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.”

Mistake Mankind Possibility Evolution Accounts Victim Species Diagnosis Homo Sapiens Futility

Author:Arthur Koestler

“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.”

Principles Evolution Periods Activity Female Species Extraordinary Males Active Heat Pairs Devices Aggression Lacking Sexually Primates Responsiveness

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.”

Men Children Facts Age Security Materials Evolution Activity Commitment Resources Strategy Investment Heavy Stakes Consistently Cardinals Courtship Mating

Author:E. O. Wilson

“These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot than the four legged animals around them. They could have succeeded in their new way of life only by relying on tools and sophisticated cooperative behavior”

People Way Years Littles Animal Four Feet Modern Evolution Behavior Tools Size New Ways Sophisticated Fangs Claws Cooperatives Slender New Way Of Life

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Evolution is a fairy tale for adults”

Evolution Adults Tales Fairy Fairy Tale

Author:Paul Lemoine

“For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.”

Philosophy Political Certain Doubt Economic Evolution Morality Instruments Liberation No Doubt Economic Systems Meaninglessness Creationism

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution”

Science Pay Evolution

Book:Canadian Stories

Source: Canadian Stories

“I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.”

Done Science Creation Evolution Impressed Modifying

Author:William Temple

“The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted by and brought up by the science of genetics, and ecologists, being modest people, are apt to forget their distinguished parenthood.”

People Has Beens Science Natural Forget Theory Evolution Observation Parenthood Modest Selection Adopted Distinguished Genetics Ecological Natural Selection Theory Of Evolution

Author:John L. Harper

“William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.”

Science Religion Christianity Ignorance Flower Evolution Superstitions Cleansing Dissolving Dross

Author:Adrian Desmond

“Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)”

Fall Force Evolution Stones

Author:Ovid

“It gets worse when you realize that for YECs, 22 months is only 1.4 million years in evolutionary time.”

Years Realizing Millions Months Evolution

Author:Nick Matzke

“We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.”

Consciousness Evolution Conscious Species Biology

Author:Amit Goswami

“We are at an inflection point in history.”

Evolution

Author:Joel Garreau

“The next frontier is our own selves.”

Self Next Evolution Frontiers

Author:Joel Garreau

“Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.”

Humans Stories Age Today Political Social Attitude Issues Evolution Transformation Defining Adjusting Political Issues

Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

“The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.”

Seems Might Creation Keys Evolution Seizing

Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

“In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

Humans Wells Race Evolution Becoming Catastrophe Human History Becoming More

Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

“It is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissancee to achieve a golden age that will be a turning point for human productivity and quality of life.”

Humans Age Spirit Quality Achieve Evolution Productivity Golden Quality Of Life Turning Points Golden Age

Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

“The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.”

Art Spirit Culture Quality Principles Fields Evolution Intellectual Exciting Engineering Renaissance Holistic Hallmark

Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

“The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.”

Wells Law Animal Conditions Evolution Please Behavior Training Damn Behave Controlled Organisms Feeding Temperature Harvard Lighting Animal Behavior

Author:Joel Garreau

“Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.”

Humans Ideas Human Beings Evolution Distinguished Informing

Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

“Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.”

Humans Effort Evolution Constant Humankind Human History Shortcomings

Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

“If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

Ifs World Ends Evolution Please Paint Dry Caves End Of The World Discworld

Author:Joel Garreau

“The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.”

Stills Sometimes Action Certain Waiting Chance Acting Wind Evolution Patient Cancer Physicians Uncertain Catching Diagnosis Back When

Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

“Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can avoid deep contact in time-consuming and meaningful ways... You're flitting from one place to another. You're more likely to pursue superficial engagements rather than deep pursuits. It contributes to this certain MTV approach to life where you engage in something for a few minutes and then there's a commercial... You have to get a grip on reality. Unless you know what is real-what is a real friendship and relationship-neither can have an effect on you.”

“In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.”

People World Order Opportunity Differences Evolution Intense Scenarios Connectedness

Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

“There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.”

Three Levels Evolution Meaningful Pleasant Good Life Meaningful Life Authentic Happiness

Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

“There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, the more meaning you get out of life.”

Knows One Thing Evolution Bigger Attachment

Author:Joel Garreau

“The theory of meaning says that joining and serving in things larger than you that you believe in while using your highest strengths is a recipe for meaning.”

Believe Theory Evolution Highest Serving Recipes Joining

Author:Joel Garreau

“The essence of being human is being creative.”

Humans Creative Evolution Essence Being Human Be Creative

Book:Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

“Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.”

May Real Serious Evolution Ultimate Finals Alternatives Extinction Transcendence Exam Final Exams

Author:Joel Garreau

“The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.”

People Sometimes Reality Belief Evolution Refuse Acknowledge Unconscious Deceit Inadequacy Owing Sectarianism Falsity

Author:Pierre-Paul Grasse

“Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with a frantic intolerance that has a parallel only in the bigotry of the darkest Middle Ages. If one does not accept evolution as an infallible dogma, implicitly and without question, one is regarded as an unenlightened ignoramus or is merely ignored as an obscurantist or a naive, uncritical fundamentalist.”

“It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution doctrine rests, and the observational and laboratory evidence that bears on the problem of origins, he/she will conclude that there are substantial reasons for doubting the truth of this doctrine. Moreover, I believe that a scientifically sound creationist view of origins is not only possible, but it is to be preferred over the evolutionary one.”

Ifs Believe Reason Problem I Believe Sound Views Doubt Bears Evolution Evidence Conviction Doctrine Assumption Adequate Laboratory Biologist Macro Creationist

Author:Dean H. Kenyon

“The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates appear "suddenly" in the first fossil ferrous strata (Cambrian) of the earth with their distinct specializations indicating that they were all created almost at the same time.”

Firsts Facts Seems Earth Support Groups Creation Evolution Majors Instance Flood Fossils Specialization Paleontology Invertebrates

Author:Enoch

“Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses.”

Matter Facts Dream Fields Evolution Worthy Explanation Suggestions Hypothesis Pipe Matter Of Fact Hunches Pipe Dreams

Author:Norman Macbeth

“The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity.”

Evolution Integrity Accomplished Decline Darwinism

Author:W. R. Thompson

“As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in and so providentially crafted the cosmos for our benefit?”

Source: The symbiotic universe: life and mind in the cosmos

“To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.”

Believe Facts I Believe Chance Fashion Evolution Assurance Olympian Supposition

Author:Pierre-Paul Grasse

“We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. ...Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.”

“Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.”

Writing Book Belief Evolution Clouds Extremes British Lakes Museums Swans Hydrogen British Museum Ultraviolet Swan Lake

Author:Fred Reed

“There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.”

Two Theory Evolution Radio Genuine Versions Deceiving Enlightening Scientific Theory Theory Of Evolution Talk Radio

Author:Edward Humes

“Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths.”

People Mind Events Evolution Blind Conviction Significant Realization Liberated Significant Events

Author:Nathaniel Dean

“May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.”

Men Should Believe May States Courses Church Atheism Evolution Late Surprise Raised Presidential Surprise Me Intelligence And Education

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.”

Mean Bigs Reality Government Economy Generations Evolution Labor Tables Notion Work Out Gathering Dinosaurs New Generation Big Business Big Government Mammals Variance American Economy

Author:Bruce Babbitt

“When you’ve had children, your body changes; there’s history to it. I like the evolution of that history; I’m fortunate to be with somebody who likes the evolution of that history. I think it’s important to not eradicate it. I look at someone’s face and I see the work before I see the person... You’re certainly not staving off the inevitable. And if you’re doing it out of fear, that fear’s still going to be seen through your eyes. The windows to your soul, they say.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Children Persons Stills Important Soul Body Eye Faces Evolution Window Your Body Likes Inevitable Your Soul Fortunate Surgery Plastic Surgery Body Change

Author:Cate Blanchett

“The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.”

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