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“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.”

Should Reason Enough Humanity Evolution Prove Equal Intellectual Capacity Universal Firm Heritage Reserves Anticipate Equal Power

Book:Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

Source: Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

“evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.”

Mind Hands Science Evolution Prove Invention Ads Elegant Jury Glue

Book:The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

Source: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

“Prove beyond reasonable doubt that the process of evolution (option 3 above, under known options) is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence.”

Way Process Existence Known Doubt Evolution Prove Scary Reasonable Reasonable Doubt

Author:Kent Hovind

“The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to the "mutations" of genetic theory. Some forms prove to be effective under prevailing circumstances and others not, and the perpetuation of the culture is determined accordingly.”

Different Form Culture Theory Evolution Circumstances Prove Species Patterns Determined Arise Prevailing Mutation

Book:Science And Human Behavior

Source: Science And Human Behavior

“The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and more evidence of evolution. Those who choose to believe that God created every biological species separately in the state we observe them, but made them in a way calculated to lead us to the conclusion that they are the products of an evolutionary development are obviously not open to argument. All that can be said is that their belief is an implicit blasphemy, for it imputes to God an appalling deviousness.”

Way Believe Made Said States Belief Stage Products Development Evolution Prove Evidence Argument Species Conclusion Blasphemy Biologist Implicit Deviousness

Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

“My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.”

World Country Desire Opportunity Force Situation Evolution Prove Complexes Dialogue Peaceful Historic Ardent Poland

Author:Lech Walesa

“Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.”

Firsts Looks May Real Matter Evolution Prove Research Function Dues Accidents Odd Outcomes Phenomenon Irrelevant Biologist

Author:E. O. Wilson

“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.”

“To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.”

“The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.”

Science Existence Evolution Prove Science And Religion Trousers

Author:David C.H. Austin

“Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that it cannot be proved. Well, no, you cannot prove the theory to people who won't believe in it any more than you can prove that the Battle of Hastings took place in 1066. However, we know the battle happened then, just as we know the course of evolution on earth unambiguously shows that Darwin was right.”

People Knows Believe Wells Facts Shows Earth Courses Natural Happened Theory Evolution Battle Prove Experiments Observation Opponents Selection Natural Selection

Author:David Attenborough

“You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.”

“The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.”

Trying Can Do Evolution Prove Scientist Doctrine Pathetic

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.”

Knows Believe Wells Matter Evolution Prove Argument No Matter What Response Believe In God

Book:Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism