#biologist

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#aspire #beings #biologists #birds #broader

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#actually #almost #biologists #due #evolution

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#believe #biologist #came #could #down

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#biologist #could #i #if i could #intelligence

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#biologist #largely #problem #size #socialism

Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#biologists #biology #both #country #darwinism

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#biologists #darwinian #darwinian theory #evolutionary #explains

John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or materialist, or biologist or linguist, or for that matter socialist, because one or more of these, or something else again, is what we do and think and are. We have 'purely and simply finished with God', to adapt a phrase of Engels's. ↗

— David Craig

#atheists #biologists #friedrich-engels #god #humanists

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#aside #been #biologists #consistently #dangers

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#also #biologists #build #classify #common