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Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science. -- Martin Rees
... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinism, -- Errol White
The perfect example of Darwinism is what technology has done to businesses. -- Charlie Munger
Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy. -- Phillip E. Johnson
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant. -- Ben Stein
Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society. -- Richard Dawkins
It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work. -- Richard Dawkins
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. -- Trofim Lysenko
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
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts. -- Francis Parker Yockey
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race. -- Ben Stein
People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes. -- Stephen Fry
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science. -- Ben Stein
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines. -- Richard Flanagan
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so. -- Jonah Goldberg
For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass. -- Bruce Lipton
Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from. -- Ben Stein
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist. -- Jonah Goldberg
Each business is a victim of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than the ability to exploit it. Digital Darwinism does not discriminate. Every business is threatened. -- Brian Solis
But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that's why it's called the theory of evolution. -- Mike Huckabee
The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive. -- Charles Fort
Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic. -- Alan Grant
There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity. -- Lee Strobel
After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism. -- George W. Bush
The invalidity of Darwinism and the actuality of creation are scientific facts. -- Harun Yahya
The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity. -- W. R. Thompson
And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin]. -- Ben Stein
Darwinism has laid the groundwork for Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism and Stalin's communism. -- Harun Yahya
When it comes to society and human consciousness, Darwinism still exists in its primal message. -- Kat Lahr
Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt. -- Harun Yahya
Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best. -- Peter Thiel
As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism . -- William A. Dembski
Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion. -- Julian Huxley
There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism . -- Richard Dawkins
Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia. -- Nancy Pearcey
I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme... -- Karl Popper
Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one, -- David Berlinski
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe -- Richard Dawkins
What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content. -- George Gilder
Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools. -- William C. Brown
Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being. -- Henry Gee
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'. -- Neal Ascherson
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. -- Peter Singer
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts -- Francis Parker Yockey
Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything. -- Dave Hunt
I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene. -- Richard Dawkins
Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God. -- Phillip E. Johnson
Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism . -- Ben Stein
Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter comes from. -- Ben Stein
Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival. -- Carl Sagan
There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I could easily imagine trying to go against Darwinism. -- Richard Dawkins
I am not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or that his influence in scientific and public thinking has been beneficial ... the success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity. -- W. R. Thompson
Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students 'the full range of scientific views' about Darwinian evolution. -- Jonathan Wells
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change. -- Stephen Jay Gould
In contrast to creation, Darwinism does not have a single piece of evidence demonstrating the theory of evolution. Its proponents don't have any fossil evidence, of the kind which they should be able to put forward. -- Harun Yahya
Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed. -- Norman Macbeth
Darwinism is under official protection throughout the world. No other ideology in history, no other idea, has ever been kept under such strict official protection. To make any kind of statement criticizing Darwinism causes an official reaction. -- Harun Yahya
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media. -- Ben Stein
The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes. -- Anita Roddick
... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values. -- Stephanie Coontz
People have accused me of many things: racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, intolerance, anti-Darwinism and anti-homosexualism [sic]. Well, I tell those people that there was someone else who was accused of things...our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I rest my case. -- Jerry Falwell
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources. -- Richard Lewontin
Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinismneither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy. -- Richard Weikart
Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could. -- David Nasaw
Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the world's greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy. -- Richard Weikart
Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy. -- Richard Weikart
A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp.....moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical persuasions, but on strictly scientific grounds, and in some instances, regretfully. -- Wolfgang Smith
It is impossible for a person who fears Allah to commit terrorist acts because of his faith. Such acts are committed by people who were educated abroad, who received a Darwinist education and who internalized Darwinism, but who later called themselves Muslims. -- Harun Yahya
Im not advocating social Darwinism, I am witnessing actual Darwinism. If you are in a camp with a bunch of campers, and a bear attacks, you don't have to be faster than the bear. You only have to be faster than the slowest camper -- Michael Ruppert
Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's got some gigantic missing pieces. -- Ben Stein
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
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel. -- Jonathan Sacks
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind? -- Charles Darwin
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of possibilities or even probabilities, without a basis of fact, it departs from the true scientific method and injures science, as most of the devotees of the new ism have already done. -- Louis Agassiz
It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust. It is highly doubtful that Obama knows anything about the history of these ideas, and it is even more doubtful that he cares. A concern for truth is not the coin of the political realm. -- George H. Smith
Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world. -- Rudolf Steiner
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it. -- R. J. Hollingdale
Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment. -- Andy Rooney
Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the Almighty. Most people seem willing to accept Darwinism as long as they don't have to believe in nothing but Darwinism. Thus, the strident tub-thumping for absolute atheism by evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins, whom the new issue of Discover Magazine rightly criticizes as "Darwin's Rottweiler," is self-defeating. -- Steve Sailer

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