Quotes About Evolution

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The church by and large is sitting back while we allow 15 percent of the population—the liberal media, college professors, and press—to undermine our faith and brainwash the next generation with their ungodly propaganda. Evolution, abortion, and the destruction of traditional marriage are deadly tares in the wheat field and poison in the drinking water.

Everything grows out of the soil of contingent circumstance. Convenience, rather than the shibboleth of progress of evolution, is the agent of change. Error and misjudgment therefore play a large part in what we are pleased to call the 'development' of institutions. A body of uses and misuses then takes on the carapace of custom and becomes part of a tradition.

It may be noted, in parenthesis, that in this period the coach was introduced to England

Streoneshalch was renamed as Whitby, and Northworthig became Derby.

Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to develop in interesting ways.

S]ocial change is not clearly linear and rarely totally beneficial or detrimental. Social change nearly nearly always produces positive and negative effects that are distributed differentially in the affected population.

If leaders are unable to slough off yesterday, to abandon yesterday, they simply will not be able to create tomorrow.

The earlier changes are discerned, the earlier the opportunities they create can be converted into innovations.

This failure to ask reflects human stupidity less than it reflects human history.

Even today few businessmen understand that research, to be productive, has to be the "disorganizer," the creator of a different future and the enemy of today. In most industrial laboratories, "defensive research" aimed at perpetuating today, predominates.

Success always makes obsolete the very behavior that achieved it. It always creates new realities. It always creates, above all, its own and different problems. Only the fairy tale ends, "They lived happily ever after.

At one point quantity turned into quality.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

We need to encourage habits of flexibility, of continuous learning, and of acceptance of change as normal and as opportunity - for institutions as well as for individuals.

most behaviorally sophisticated animals outside the bilaterians are the—terrifying—box jellyfish

When you dive into the sea, you are diving into the origins of us all.

We can get by on land only by carrying a huge amount of salt water around with us.

Cephalopods are an island of mental complexity in the sea of invertebrate animals. Because our most recent common ancestor was so simple and lies so far back, cephalopods are an independent experiment in the evolution of large brains and complex behavior. If we can make contact with cephalopods as sentient beings, it is not because of a shared history, not because of kinship, but because evolution built minds twice over. This is probably the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien.

The octopuses seemed to be neither friends nor enemies, but in a state of complicated coexistence.

Legs and fins don't necessarily show that one animal was interacting with others. Claws, in contrast, have little ambiguity.

Sentience is brought into being somehow from the evolution of sensing and acting; it involves being a living system with a point of view on the world around it

Once the same chemicals are being sensed and produced, there is the possibility of coordination between cells. We have reached the birth of social behavior.

Around the top of their body are two dozen sophisticated eyes—