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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications. — Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of — Christopher Hitchens
It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us tru — Christopher Hawke
And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best anima — Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would’ve changed his mind and p — Charbel Tadros
They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That' — Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to g — Edmund Gosse, Father and Son
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but the — Michael Crichton
Evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conservatives, and by accep — Michael Shermer, Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are — James P. Hogan
For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Farada — Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept thos — Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutat — Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of the helpful mutation — Michael J. Behe
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitti — Charles Darwin
I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I — Michael Crichton
Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congre — Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen — Scott F. Gilbert
No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossib — Henry Gee, In Search of Deep Time