"Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion."
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"Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted."
"The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm."
"Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences."
"Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?"
"Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction."
"The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable."
"I doubt evolution is real."
"I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change."
"I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless."
"There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it."
"Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored."
"Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution."
"That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution"
"Is evolution just another name for God?"
"The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words."
"God wants to be praised for nourishing and cherishing, for He cherishes all creatures. He is not only the Creator, but He is also the Sustainer and Nourisher."
"Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures."
"If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects."
"Revolution is obstructed evolution."