Quotes about Evolution

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

The past is the past. Who or what we used to be doesn't matter anymore. What matters is who and what we are now and who and what we can become in the future.

Don't accept your present state in life as final, because it is just that, a state.

The debate that has been conducted in terms of "creation versus evolution" has gotten caught up with all kinds of other debates, and this has provided a singularly unhelpful backdrop to the would-be serious discussion of other parts of the Bible.

One of the great New Testament words is Now. That was then, this is now.

The biological structure of our bodies is not some evolutionary accident.

The core of the evolution controversy can thus be phrased in simple terms: Did mind create matter? Or did matter give rise to mind? According to a theistic worldview, mind is primary. It is the fundamental creative force in the universe (whether God created the world quickly by fiat or slowly by a gradual process). Darwin reversed things. According to his theory, matter is the primary creative force, and mind emerged only very late in evolutionary history.10

Randall concludes, "When science seemed to take God out of the universe, men had to deify some natural force, like 'evolution.

It is the height of illogic to think that humans originated from anything with lower functionality than themselves—from a something instead of a Someone.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.