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“In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.”

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Author:E. O. Wilson

“Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator.”

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Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.”

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Book:The Descent of Man: the Evolution

Source: The Descent of Man: the Evolution

“The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein.”

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Author:Fred Hoyle

“I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn't change, you've become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you.”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.”

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Author:Jonas Salk

“Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the 'facts' of culture history are interpretations based upon assumed culture process.”

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Author:Jerry Sabloff

“Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.”

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Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.”

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process”

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Author:Gerald Edelman

“It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice”

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Author:David Landes

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Hugh Ross

“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.”

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Author:Peter Gabriel