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Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution i...more

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All life, all intelligence, all creativity and all 'design' anywhere in the universe, is the direct or indirect product of Darwinian natural selection...more

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If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly substantial fraction...more

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Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own society. If we were to be guided...more

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Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own society. If we were to be guided...more

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Evolution never looks to the future.

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There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

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A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to...more

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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.

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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

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If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all th...more

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I am fascinated by the evolution of language, and how local versions diverge to become dialects like Cornish English and Geordie and then imperceptibl...more

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Dan Nilsson even remarks of compound eyes that ‘It is only a small exaggeration to say that evolution seems to be fighting a desperate battle to impro...more

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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sen...more

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[W]e can calculate our way into regions of miraculous improbability far greater than we can imagine as plausible. Let's look at this matter of what we...more