#chance

Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of the helpful mutations. Let me emphasize, our experience with malaria’s effects on humans (arguably our most highly studied genetic system) shows that most helpful mutations degrade genes. What’s more, as a group the mutations are incoherent, meaning that they are not adding up to some new system. They are just small changes - mostly degradative - in pre-existing, unrelated genes. The take-home lesson is that this is certainly not the kind of process we would expect to build the astonishingly elegant machinery of the cell. If random mutation plus selective pressure substantially trashes the human genome, why should we think that it would be a constructive force in the long term? There is no reason to think so. ↗

— Michael J. Behe

#chance #darwinism #evolution #macro-evolution #macroevolution

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#did #god #pseudonym #sign #want

But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more. ↗

— Rick Allen

#any #band #because #being #chance

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists.  It is a dangerously false illusion. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#false #falsehood #illusion #opportunity #richelle

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#chance #crazy #crazy world #creative #creative art

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#every #father #footsteps #gets #his

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight. ↗

— Guy Lafleur

#comeback #end #i #knew #made

I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance. ↗

— Greg Lake

#band #call #chance #context #day

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#get #go #good #good music #i

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#australians #challenge #chance #day #eve