The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.
William A. DembskiStichwörter: science consciousness biology chance evolution naturalism darwinism natural-selection intelligent-design coincidence serendipity survival-of-the-fittest id
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?
Robert J. SawyerStichwörter: morality evolution darwinism infidelity natural-selection adultery theft stealing survival-of-the-fittest macro-evolution macroevolution social-darwinism
We have stopped natural selection from purifying the species because deep in our heart of hearts, we are all terrified that we won't make the cut.
Moxie MezcalStichwörter: natural-selection
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
Charles DarwinStichwörter: science biology evolution natural-selection
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!
Charles DarwinStichwörter: natural-selection extinction species
Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of our genes is to actually help another organism, with reciprocal altruism the goal is that the organism be left under the impression that we've helped; the impression alone is enough to bring the reciprocation.
Robert WrightStichwörter: evolution natural-selection altruism reciprocity
Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change [which] led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.
Lynn MargulisStichwörter: evolution darwinism natural-selection macro-evolution macroevolution speciation
Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.
Randolph M. NesseStichwörter: natural-selection genes
Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off many new and diverse species; and the mechanism for most (but not all) of evolutionary change is natural selection.
Jerry A. CoyneStichwörter: evolution natural-selection
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
Alfred TennysonStichwörter: nature natural-selection
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