“An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation” HumansWarBodyFormNationsPrinciplesEvolutionHigherMoralityArguingHuman BodyHuman Equality Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a negative process, and therefore does not lead to knowledge. Both are wrong for the same reasons. They ignore the generation of diversity and new ideas upon which natural selection and skepticism acts. Weeding out the unfit is critical to both - natural selection allows evolution to proceed, and skepticism allows science to advance.” DoeIdeasReasonReligionProcessNaturalGenerationsAtheismEvolutionDiversityNegativeCriticalArguingWeedSkepticismNew IdeasSelectionNatural Selection Author:Steven Novella
“In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of origins, rival judgments about he meaning of human life, rival sets of moral dictates, and above all what theologians call rival eschatologies-pictures of the future and of what lies ahead for humankind.” HumansStoriesLyingReligiousMoralCreationParticularEvolutionJudgmentCrisisResponseArguingHuman LifeHumankindTheologianRivalsEschatology Author:Michael Ruse
“I love people thinking about apologetics. I just think that we have to be careful. We need to realize that we can argue about evolution or the existence of God or any number of things, but until we tell people the message of the cross, we have not evangelized them.” PeopleThinkingNeedsRealizingNumbersExistenceEvolutionMessagesCrossesCarefulArguingBe CarefulExistence Of GodApologetic Author:Mark Dever
“I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.” MindBelieveHumansProblemFantasyEffectsProduceEvolutionMachinesArguingHuman MindRaysElectricMaintainingSingularityGridsHuman EvolutionSynthetic Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsKindImportantCertainLevelsWillingEvolutionIntellectualArguingRationalJustify Author:Rem Koolhaas
“In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of a question when a supposed rhetorical advantage could be extracted from each.” TwoSidesStruggleGroupsEvolutionAdvantageStrategyArguingUsualClassroomContradictoryGenesisFundamentalistRhetorical Book:Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
“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.” IfsMadeWould BeProcessClassCasesEvolutionEasierModelsFlowFinalsPatternsArguingWitnessAnalysisDivisionSequenceHierarchyContinuityStraightforwardFacetsOverlappingTypology Author:Michael Denton