Quotes about Evolution

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

I think of Christians who, having been raised to read the Genesis creation story as literal science and history, leave for college, watch the History Channel, or log onto the internet, and find out that fossils and radiometric dating are in fact not hoaxes. That's how nice Christian college freshmen become atheists by Christmas break. If your faith can unravel that quickly, it's enough to make you question whether your faith is worth the effort at all.

And again, the genius of the laws is their ambiguity, not their clarity, for their ambiguity is the very thing that allows them to gain new life with each passing year, ensuring that past and present forever remain connected and in dialogue.

reality isn't what it used to be.

adapting the past to speak to changing circumstances in the present.

Without its unwavering commitment to adaptation over time, the Bible would have died a quick death over two thousand years ago. Its existence as a source of spiritual truth that transcends specific times and places is made possible by its flexibility and adaptive nature—one of the many paradoxes we need to embrace when it comes to the Bible.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”

All by itself the earth produces a crop—first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within.

but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.