“As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.” ProcessConsciousnessImagineAwarenessProductsEvolutionDrawsCapacityPhilosopherScriptureAlternativesRecognizingAnticipateEmergenceBios Author:Jonas Salk
“Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious beliefs from contradiction by science. They used to do it by prohibiting teachers from teaching evolution at all; then they wanted to teach intelligent design as an alternative theory; now they want the supposed "weaknesses" in evolution pointed out. But it's all the same program - it's all an attempt to let religious ideas determine what is taught in science courses.” ThinkingKnowsWantTryingIdeasWantedUsedCoursesBeliefReligiousBehindsTeachTeacherAtheismTeachingDesignTaughtTheoryEvolutionProtectWeaknessProgramArgumentIntelligentDeterminePositive AtheismAlternativesContradictionReligious BeliefInvokeIntelligent Design Author:Steven Weinberg
“My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. That simply is not true. ... Unlike biological evolution, intelligent design is not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has no place in the curriculum of our nation's public school science classes.” SchoolNationsClassSupportAtheismTeachingDesignTheoryEvolutionRepublicanIntelligentPositive AtheismGenuineAlternativesColleaguesPublic SchoolCurriculumPennsylvaniaIntelligent DesignScientific TheoryBiological EvolutionScience Class Author:Edward Kennedy
“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.” WellsIdeasLastsAsksLiteratureNaturalReligiousSuccessfulPiecesAtheismDesignEvolutionResearchProgramBasesIntelligentRemainsPositive AtheismDecadesAlternativesJudgedPlatformsSelectionCriteriaNatural SelectionDarwinismScientific ResearchGaugesIntelligent DesignDatabasesKeywords Author:Chet Raymo
“The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty.” YearsTheoryEvolutionThousandIntellectualEvidenceYears AgoClaimsPhysicsDataAlternativesExplanationReasonableBiologyOverwhelmingBiblicalThousand YearsDishonestyCreationismBiosphereScientific EvidenceIntellectual Dishonesty Author:David Deutsch
“To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions.” ShouldWellsFactsUsedTheoryEvolutionAlternativesExplanationImperfectClassroomGroundedPropositionsHypothesisThrustPretextScientific TheoryTheory Of Evolution Author:Jon Jones
“If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.” IfsShouldTeachCreationTheoryEvolutionAtheistAlternativesReproductionCreation ScienceStorks Author:Judith Hayes
“Today, the Indian government is trying to present privatization as the alternative to the state, to public enterprise. But privatization is only a further evolution of the centralized state, where the state says that they have the right to give the entire power production in Maharashtra to Enron.” GivingTryingStatesGovernmentTodayEvolutionProductionsAlternativesIndianEnterpriseEnronPrivatizationMaharashtra Author:Arundhati Roy
“Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.” ClassTeachingEvolutionAlternativesInappropriateCreationismScience Class Author:Bill Nye
“You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.” PeopleKnowsMenShouldBelieveLooksMatterBodyUniverseWaterExistencePerspectiveEvolutionOceanEvidenceCome UpCreatorAlternativesDesperateReasonableLogicalBelieve In GodShould IYou Re Pretty Author:Ted Dekker
“Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove that the religious alternative is correct by default. When the sun was shown not to be the center of the universe, as Copernicus had proposed, the Earth was not moved back to that singular position in the cosmos. If Darwinian evolution is proved wrong, biologists will not develop a new theory based on the hypothesis that each species was created separately by God 6,000years ago.” IfsEarthReligionUniverseReligiousSunPositionTheoryEvolutionProveMovedStrategySpeciesAlternativesCosmosDoomedHypothesisDefaultBiologistUnderminingScientific TheoryCenter Of The UniverseCopernicus Author:Victor J. Stenger
“Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness.” HumansConsciousnessEventsEvolutionAlternativesOutcomesLinkedPathwaysHuman EvolutionFortuitous Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.” BelieveSpecialCreationEvolutionAlternativesUnthinkableCreation And Evolution Author:Arthur Keith
“Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing.” BeliefLeftAcceptingGenerationsModernSpecialCreationEvolutionSatisfactionAlternativesSpontaneousHypothesisUnwillingDownfallBiologistBe SpontaneousCreation And Evolution Author:George Wald
“The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.” BelieveChanceHappenedEvolutionIntelligentBlindObviousAlternativesDesignerChances AreImprobableIntelligent Design Author:Richard Dawkins
“Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has no alternative, he submits to the yoke of communal servitude. Yet given a full chance to act in his own interest, nothing but expediency will restrain him from brutalizing, from maiming, from murdering his brother, his mate, his parent, or his child. Scratch an 'altruist' and watch a 'hypocrite' bleed.” MayChildrenGivenParentInterestChanceWatchesBrotherEvolutionFellowsExpectedAidsAlternativesMatesSubmitOrganismsScratchesHypocriteServitudeYokeExpediency Author:Michael Ghiselin
“Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint - ...and Mr. Gish is but one of many to make it - the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution today.” TodayChristianChristianityEvolutionMoralityMereIdeologyAlternativesSecularComplaintsExesArdentCreation And Evolution Author:Michael Ruse
“The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion....The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be true, but irrational.” MayCertainStudyMysterySpecialCreationEvolutionDoctrineBeing TrueAlternativesEncountersIrrationalPaleontology Author:Louis T. Moore
“Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.” MayRealSeriousEvolutionUltimateFinalsAlternativesExtinctionTranscendenceExamFinal Exams Author:Joel Garreau