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• I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

  Alexis Bledel

  Thinking, Interesting, Getting Older

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• In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

  Arthur Peacocke

  Catholic, Proposal, Century

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• The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.

  Arthur Middleton

  Spiritual, Church, Redemption

  "Confessing the Faith Yesterday and Today: Essays Reformed, Dissenting, and Catholic". Book by Alan P. F. Sell, September 1, 2013.

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• No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

  Michael Shermer

  Discovery, Single Life, Together

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• There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

  Beck

  Song, Sea, Albums

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• I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

  George Lucas

  Envelopes, Pushing, Resources

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• In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.

  Henry Lipson

  Facts, Creation Science, Fit

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• Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

  Keith Henson

  Today, Psychological, Characteristics

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• The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Theory Of Evolution, Special, Peculiar

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• Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

  Walter Lang

  Space, Elements, Benefits

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• The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Reality, People, Deceit

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• The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Data, Tree, Secret

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• The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Survival, Kind

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• I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  New York, Hate, Past

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• We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.

  W. Richard Stevens

  Years, May, Problem

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• Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.

  Diane Wakoski

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Imagination, Design, Fossils

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• Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good,
  And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Science, Climbing, Mud

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1434, Delphi Classics

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• Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.

  Patrick Warburton

  Book, Character, Cartoon

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

  Edward Lawrie Tatum

  Mutants, Mutation, Culture

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• With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

  Dee Hock

  Engineering, May, Advent

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• Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.

  Paul Berg

  Creating, Kind, Environment

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• All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. It's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior.

  Paul Broun

  Lying, Science, Understanding

  "U.S. Rep. Paul Broun: Evolution a lie 'from the pit of hell'" by Matt Pearce, articles.latimes.com. October 07, 2012.

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• Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.

  Richard Dawkins

  Heat Of The Sun, Progress, Facts

  "The Illusion of Design". Natural History Magazine, November 2005.

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• Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Men, Skills, Independence

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.216, Verso

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