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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and
accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the read more
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and
accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe
loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to
make new things like them.
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not read more
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles
Or ever the knightly years were gone
With the old world to the grave,
I was a read more
Or ever the knightly years were gone
With the old world to the grave,
I was a king in Babylon
And you were a Christian slave.
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And read more
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.
Said the little Eohippus,
"I am going to be a horse,
And on my middle fingernails
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Said the little Eohippus,
"I am going to be a horse,
And on my middle fingernails
To run my earthly course!
. . . .
I'm going to have a flowing tail!
I'm going to have a mane!
I'm going to stand fourteen hands high
On the Psychozoic plain!"
This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express
in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. read more
This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express
in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural
selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle
for life."
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork read more
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others read more
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms
I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if
useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural read more
I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if
useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.