#vol

Don't creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with the 'human leg and foot bones,' rather than the other way around, i.e., human skulls with 'ape leg and foot bones?' . . . Come on, creationists, think about it! Did God hide the human skulls, only leaving behind leg and foot bones belonging to human midgets with misshapen feet, and mix such bones only with the skulls of ape-like creatures with larger cranial capacities than living apes? What a 'kidder' the creationists' God must be. ↗

— Edward Babinski

#atheist #atheists #christian #christianity #christians

Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults and society, and morality is an evolutionary adaptation. Period. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#morality #religion #religion

La métaphysique n'est qu'une sorte d'appendicite idéologique. ↗

— Jacques Roumain

#religion

Reality is highly overrated. ↗

— Roxanne Bland

#fantasy-scifi #mage #paranoramal-fantasy #revolution #science-fiction

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#darwinism #evolution #macro-evolution #macroevolution #science

...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation. ↗

— E.J.H. Corner

#evolution #science #science

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#respect

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #science

While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight line uncorrected by anything. But the habit of forming conclusions, as they can really be formed in more fruitful fields, is so fixed in the scientific mind that it cannot resist talking like this. It talks about the idea suggested by one scrap of bone as if it were something like the aeroplane which is constructed at last out of whole scrapheaps of scraps of metal. The trouble with the professor of the prehistoric is that he cannot scrap his scrap. The marvellous and triumphant aeroplane is made out of a hundred mistakes. The student of origins can only make one mistake and stick to it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#science #science

My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random patterns, as we know from scientific evidence, on top of the numerous legends about faces of Jesus, or the Virgin Mary, or Mother Teresa, being seen on slices of toast, or pizzas, or patches of damp on a wall. This eagerness is enhanced if the pattern departs from randomness in the specific direction of being symmetrical. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#evidence #evolution #religion #science #sir-julian-huxley