by Roedy Green ©2008-2009 Canadian Mind Products“For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.…We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.”
~ Douglas Adams (born: 1952-03-11 died: 2001-05-11 at age: 49) , author of Last Chance to See
“Only the extinct don’t change.”
~ Chris Chandler
“An American [new world] Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
~ Charles Darwin (born: 1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73)
“Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.”
~ Charles Darwin (born: 1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73)
“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.”
~ Charles Darwin (born: 1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73)
“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.”
~ Charles Darwin (born: 1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73)
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
~ Charles Darwin (born: 1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73)
“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.”
~ Charles Darwin (born: 1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73)
“Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.”
~ Charles Darwin (born: 1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73)
“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.”
~ Charles Darwin (born: 1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73)
“There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designed the Ichneumonidae (parasitic wasps) with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should place with mice.”
~ Charles Darwin (born: 1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73)
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
~ Charles Darwin (born: 1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73)
“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
~ Charles Darwin (born: 1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73)
“What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”
~ Charles Darwin (born: 1809-02-12 died: 1882-04-19 at age: 73)Religious people wish nature/God were kind and nurturing, so they ignore all the contrary evidence and just pretend it is.
“Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. What worries thoughtful theologians such as [Dietrich] Bonhoeffer is that gaps shrink as science advances, and God is threatened with eventually having nothing to do and nowhere to hide. What worries scientists is something else. It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests… Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason; it gives them something to do… One of the truly bad effects of religion that it teaches us it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
~ Dr. Richard Dawkins (born: 1941-03-26 age: 68) , The God Delusion page 125
“Evolution is true in whatever sense you accept it as true that New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere.”
~ Dr. Richard Dawkins (born: 1941-03-26 age: 68) Heat the Hornet
“Religion is nothing more than a useless, and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.”
~ Dr. Richard Dawkins (born: 1941-03-26 age: 68)
“The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.”
~ Dr. Richard Dawkins (born: 1941-03-26 age: 68)
“There are clues from the distribution of DNA codes throughout the animal and plant kingdoms, of protein sequences, of morphological characters that have been analyzed in great detail. Everything fits with the idea that we have here a simple branching tree. The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you’d expect if evolution were a fact. The distribution of fossils in space and in time are exactly what you would expect if evolution were a fact. There are millions of facts all pointing in the same direction and no facts pointing in the wrong direction.”
~ Dr. Richard Dawkins (born: 1941-03-26 age: 68)
“To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.”
~ Dr. Richard Dawkins (born: 1941-03-26 age: 68) Lament for Douglas 2001-05-14
“Natural selection is engineering; sexual selection is art.”
~ What Females Want and Males Will Do a PBS Nature Documentary.
“Species without borders [blocks to invasive species spreading] means far fewer species.”
~ National Geographic, Invaders episode of the Strange Days on Planet Earth documentary series
“If a wolf — with a time frame so short that it can almost be entirely recorded, and by means so simple that they can be mastered by illiterate people — could be transformed through selective breeding into everything from a Great Dane to a toy Pomeranian, then surely Nature, working on a time scale so much greater, could produce even more dramatic transformations — say monkey into man.”
~ Adam Gopnik (born: 1956-08-24 age: 52) 2006-10-23 Rewriting Nature, Charles Darwin, Natural Novelist, The New Yorker. Artificial selective breeding is just a particularly dramatic type of natural selection, where intense interactions between species creates an environment that shapes with a strong breeding advantage to change in a particular direction.
“Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage — good teaching — than a bill forcing honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?”
~ Dr. Stephen Jay Gould (born: 1941-09-10 died: 2002-05-02 at age: 60)
“Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.”
~ Dr. Stephen Jay Gould (born: 1941-09-10 died: 2002-05-02 at age: 60)On the contrary, it is the creationists with an untestable hypothesis. Creationism makes no predictions. There is no telling what a god will do.
“Pseudoscience known by its supporters as ‘scientific creationism’ is strict Genesis literalism masquerading as science in a cynical attempt to bypass the First Amendment and win legislatively mandated inclusion of particular (and minority) religious views into public school curricula… Intense debates about how evolution occurs display science at its most exciting, but provide no solace (only phony ammunition by willful distortion) to strict fundamentalists.”
~ Dr. Stephen Jay Gould (born: 1941-09-10 died: 2002-05-02 at age: 60)
“We long to situate ourselves on a benevolent, warm, furry, encompassing planet, created to provide our material needs, and constructed for our dominion and delectation. Unfortunately, this pipedream of succor from the realm of meaning (and therefore the magisterium of religion), imposes definite and unrealistic demands upon the factual construction of nature (under the magisterium of science). But nature, who is as she is, and who existed in earthly form for 4.5 billion years before we arrived to impose our interpretations upon her, greets us with sublime indifference and no preference for accommodating our yearnings.”
~ Dr. Stephen Jay Gould (born: 1941-09-10 died: 2002-05-02 at age: 60) , Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
“If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.”
~ Judith Hayes
“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”
~ John F. Kennedy(born: 1917-05-29 died: 1963-11-22 at age: 46)
“Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.”
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (born: 1903-11-07 died: 1989-02-27 at age: 85)
“I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.”
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (born: 1903-11-07 died: 1989-02-27 at age: 85)
“Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.”
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (born: 1903-11-07 died: 1989-02-27 at age: 85)
”Researchers proved how relatively unimportant women’s clothes are [in the dating game]. Save your expensive clothes to impress your girl friends or your prospective employer.”
~ Leil Lowndes
“There is no guarantee that our minds will intuitively understand phenomena at scales of time and space that are very different from our own experience — hundreds of millions of years, billions of light years, Ângströms… Our best science tells us that that laws of reality work very differently from those at the scales we are used to thinking so disciplines like quantum mechanics, evolutionary biology, cosmology and even neuro science are deeply baffling.”
~ Steven Pinker (born: 1954-09-18 age: 54) in an interview with Richard Dawkins.
“ A scientist approaches the creationism debate by asking himself ‘Which hypothesis best fits the observed facts?’. A creationist approaches it with an extreme double standard for judging the two sides. If he can find anything in creationism in accord with fact… If he can find anything in evolutionary theory, or in any parody of evolution, that he personally doubts… If he can find any august personage of ancient times supporting creationism… Or if he personally finds anything he does not intuitively grasp without study in evolutionary theory, he claims victory for creationism. Further he treats his judgement as a personal triumph and a vindication of his sect’s dogma, not merely of some form of intelligent creation.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“A female human is looking for a male who can be counted on to help her raise her offspring to maturity, someone who will not abandon her and who has the resources to be useful. Thus the sexual allure of male shyness. The male is advertising, perhaps falsely, that not will he will stay faithful, but also that he could not stray even if he wanted to. Evolutionary natural selection sometimes plays a cruel trick on males, making them so shy that they cannot even approach one female.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“A modern metaphor for evolution might be American Idol. A motley random assortment of mostly untalented people present themselves to the judges. The judges winnow the pack down to an ultimate winner, who is remarkably talented. The judging process is anything but random. Imagine a world where the next generation of contestants were sired only by American Idol winners. That’s evolution. Nature does the judging and ruthlessly condemns the losers to early death for almost any imperfection.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“All modern humans descended from a group of 2000 people who lived 70,000 years ago, and most of us descended from an even smaller group of 150 people. 2000 is about the enrollment of my high school. It amazing how so few people notice how alike we all are and that you can’t help but marry a not-that-distant cousin.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“An animal may experience rejection. He might persist fruitlessly, but only a human can feel doomed to be attracted only to those who will never be attracted back.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Creationism has no more right to demand equal time in science classes than evolution has to demand equal time in Sunday school.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Creationists tell me all the dinosaurs died out because there was not room enough for them in the ark. However, most dinosaurs were quite small.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Creationists tell me God planted all the trillions of fossils in the world to give the illusion the world was 4 billion years old and dinosaurs once roamed the earth. If God went to all this effort to fool me, wouldn’t it be rude to refuse to go along with His charade? Surely He would not lie to us without some infinitely wise reason for wanting us to believe the earth is 4 billion years old.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Darwin says that fitter plants and animals tend to reproduce more offspring than plants and animals with defects that harm their survival and reproductive success. How could it be otherwise? It is a tautology, just the definition of fitter. This means over time plants and animals will gradually adapt to survive in any given environment. It is like a process of always eating the darkest jellybeans from a bowl. Eventually you have only white ones left. How could it be otherwise? Further we know this is so because have watched the process greatly speeded up when we create artificial environments for guppies, small decorative tropical fish, for example, that require bright colours for survival when we humans interfere with the least colourful males from breeding. Those who reject evolution don’t understand it, or more commonly, don’t want to understand it. They prefer to believe some straw man caricature of it. Christians will still bet on the horse with the best bloodlines, while pretending they don’t believe in the evolutionary selection process that created him.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Do those people who talk of ‘conquering nature’ ever stop to think what it would be like if they succeeded.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Driven by desires shaped by evolution when man was a hunter gatherer in a world where calories were hard to come by, Americans now get most of their calories from soda pop.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Every male bird knows the best way to attract a mate is to build a nest. Human males waste time with red sports cars that primarily attract younger males.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Evolution demands that young humans accept whatever their mothers tell them without question. Logic has nothing to do with it. That is why religious belief is so impervious to the usual techniques of logical persuasion. Religion is more akin to a phobia than a belief.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Evolution has encouraged rat curiosity even when that curiosity leads rats to take significant risks because curiosity leads to knowledge of new resources to exploit and improved knowledge of the terrain to use to evade predators.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Evolution has seen to it that young children believe anything their parents tell them without question, be it that toadstools are poisonous, matter is made of impossibly small invisible atoms, that an elderly man lives with elves at the North Pole who sneaks into their bedrooms on Christmas eve or that there is a cruel old man with a white beard hiding in the clouds staring at their genitals. Telling lies to those without their capability to resist is a form of child abuse — dishonest manipulation with lifelong harm, even harm down through the generations. Lying to children, including feigning certainty where there is only speculation, deliberately creates crippling phobias and delusions. It is morally equivalent to systematically poisoning a child with a drug that causes schizophrenia.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Evolution is both a theory and a fact. Contrary to the lies Christians love to tell, evolution is not a theory in the everyday sense of a hunch or a best guess. E.g. I have a theory about where the water on the kitchen floor is coming from. Scientists call those hypotheses. Evolution is a theory in the same sense as music theory. There is no doubt about which notes make up a C chord. There is no doubt that halving the length of a string bumps the plucked note up exactly one octave. Similarly there is no doubt that creatures evolved and continue to evolve. Theory, in this sense, means a mathematical model that describes and predicts observed facts. Evolution is also a fact because we have watched it happen in the fossil record, in our DNA, in artificial selection that we use to create domestic plants and animals, and in the way diseases and pests evolve resistance to our measures to eradicate them. There is no evidence for any competing explanation, including creationism. Even Pope Jean Paul conceded evolution was the best scientific explanation.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“From the point of view of a new disease organism, our technological civilisation seems custom-tailored to help it spread. We transport diseases around the entire planet within hours on airliners; we move them around in food transported tens of thousands of miles; we congregate in tight spaces like buses, elevators and office buildings each day to exchange microorganisms. Even our greeting ritual, the handshake, exchanges more germs than had we ritually drunk each other’s urine. We have undone all we have evolved/learned in millions of years to control disease, namely live in small groups and be wary of contact with strangers.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Humans believe they own all the food on the planet and need to prevent other species from stealing it. From the point of view of other species, the food supply of earth is up for grabs, and they want a slice of the pie. When a strawberry rots, chalk one up for the fungi in this deadly resource war.…”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Humans drive other species to extinction by hunting, by taking over their habitat, by carrying diseases, by bringing in invasive species from afar, by competing for food, by polluting, by causing climate change… Instead of homo sapiens perhaps we should have called ourselves homo deleotus.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“I would imagine an honest creationist on studying the evidence, particularly the biology of islands would conclude that the Creator seems to have gone to an extraordinary amount of work to make it look as if species evolved over millions of years or to have set it up so that species did actually so evolve. He would be completely sure that God created the mountains and the sediments, but would have at least a sliver of doubt that He authored the King James bible — knowing how many people meddled with it over the millennia. Taking God’s word contaminated by man over God’s direct communication in the form of the creation, I would think, should be considered a slap in God’s face.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“If you were watching Jeopardy, and Alex Trebek said ‘No, the first world war was in 1929’ millions of people would write to complain. Yet when equally incorrect assertions appear on TV, in books or even in school lectures, almost nobody complains, because this is religiously protected misinformation, with even higher sacred cow status than the existence of Santa Claus. We don’t realise how ridiculous it is, because we are so familiar with the religious myths. It is just as silly as if Christians started asserting John McCain were 200 years old, and pounced on anyone who dared suggest otherwise, providing of course no evidence at all for this bizarre assertion.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“In most species, the males strut, dance and decorate themselves to impress the females, but in man, it is largely the reverse. This is because, for most animals, all the male contributes is sperm. In man, the male contributes almost all his income to the raising of the young and supporting his mate. As the human two-parent family breaks down, you can expect to see a reversion in humans to the peacock pattern of male beauty and sartorial splendour.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“In nearly every species males try to prevent fellow males from breeding, but human Christians attempt to force male homosexuals not only to copulate but to sire children. What motivates this desire to propagate gay genes?”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“It is astounding that there is even any debate over evolution vs. intelligent design. On one side you have all the world’s scientists who have millions of facts about chemistry, molecular biology and biology to bolster their argument. On the other you have the scientifically illiterate whose only argument is that one particular allegedly magically blessed desert tribe living 3000 years ago surely would have guessed correctly about how the world worked.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“It is not so much survival of the fittest as survival of those who adapt most quickly to change.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“It makes me very happy to contemplate that all the other species on earth that I love so much are my cousins, that I belong here on earth with them just as the whales, the salmon or the eagles. Oddly, this same thought fills the creationist with fear, horror and shame.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Man is the only animal who abandons his mate if she or he is unfaithful. Other animals sometimes try to maintain exclusive access to their mate, but they take their aggression out on rivals, never on their mate.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Man is the only animal who goes off to sulk when his sexual advance is rebuffed. Every other animal gets back in the game immediately.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Most animals don’t seem to get much pleasure from sex, compared with what humans do. Apparently nature has to offer a massive bribe to persuade humans have have children and tend them for two decades.…”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Nesting sea birds spend a considerably percentage of their energy squabbling with each other over territory. Humans invented private property and the laws protecting it to reduce the amount of time and energy we need to protect our territories. It is a sort of global cease fire.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“One of the key features of humans is they can easily be hypnotised to believe things that are patently untrue. I suspect the original survival advantage of this trait was group consensus.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Otherwise gentle people will drop large rocks from bridges onto passing ships or from overpasses onto cars, or drop bombs from airplanes onto schools. I suspect the ancient hard-wired morality is: if they are small and distant kill them, if large and close, treat them as kin.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Palenotologists have discovered many mass exinctions, even before the last ice age. They have discovered the cause. They all happened shortly after man invaded the territory. So much for the myth primitive man is a conservationist.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Plants get their energy from the sun. Herbivores get their energy by stealing the reserves of plants. Carnivores get their energy by killing then stealing reserves from the herbivores. Bees, fruit bats and hummingbirds are among the few animals that get their food legitimately, by working for it by pollinating the plants or disbursing their seeds.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Since 1859, dishonest Christians have drummed the lie that the evolution is purely a matter of chance. Even many atheists have swallowed it. Granted, random mutation provides the contestants in the game of life, but natural selection decides who goes on to the next round. The judgement by natural selection is anything but random. It is an exhaustive life-long test of all-round fitness. If Christians were sincere, they should be equally astounded that the winner at Wimbledon each year is such a remarkably good tennis player since the process starts off with a set of players of randomly varied ability.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“So many of man’s misery comes from the fact we have changed our environment far too rapidly for us to adapt to it. Consider:”
Then Now Pick fruits and vegetables and eat them immediately. Eat irradiated, frozen and processed fruits and vegetables that sat in storage 6 months and came from the other side of the earth. Sleep when the sun is down. Sleep according to work schedules. Active Sedentary High calorie fats and sugars hard to come by. High calorie foods in abundance. Salt hard to come by. Salt in abundance. Live is small bands. Live in giant cities. One person does all the tasks to stay alive. Specialisation. Dealing with predators. Dealing with advertisers and other con men.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“The easiest way to reduce the number of deaths due to cancer is to increase the number of deaths due to diabetes and cardiovascular disease. So take care interpreting statistics.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“There are many things in science that boggle the layman’s mind: the immense size of the universe, the fact the universe has a finite size, that you eventually get back to where you started if you head off in a straight line, that space itself expands, quantum mechanics, that time is not universal, that the Grand Canyon was dug by a river, that satellites don’t fall down, the big bang, evolution… That does not make them any less true. There is no law that says the universe has to be simple enough for even a willfully ignorant Southern Baptist high school dropout to understand.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Though rivers grind round the rocks, and cave springs create fantastic crystals, there is no reason to believe they do it with intelligent intent.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“We humans have all kinds of trouble because we did most of our evolving long before there was technology or even agriculture. For example:~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
- We crave high calorie foods, a great strategy in a world where calories are hard to find.
- We are constantly on guard, a great strategy in a world where predators attack you daily and strangers will usually try to kill you.
- We have more than two children, a great strategy in a world where most children die of infectious diseases or starvation.
- We create the most lethal weapons our imaginations can concoct, a great strategy in a world where all other animals have teeth and fangs and we do not.
- We try to be as sedentary as possible, again a great strategy in world where calories are scarce and you have to work hard to dig/find/hunt your own food.
- We have no fear of speed, a great strategy in a world where the fastest you could go was the fastest you could run.”
“What are the words every woman longs to hear? ‘Would you mind if I did the windows today?’”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“When the environment changes suddenly, it upsets the species balance. A newcomer species can then take over in a population explosion because it has elsewhere previously adapted to the new local conditions giving it a competitive advantage over the native species. For example, global warming has allowed a virulent tropical fungus Cryptospordium Gattii to overwhelm the native fungi species on eastern Vancouver Island. One microbiologist said she was as astounded to see it so far north as she would at Godzilla making an appearance.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Why do the elderly take so much pleasure is poking fun at the strong sexual desires of the young? Have they forgotten what it was like to be so horny your hands shook and it felt like your teeth were sweating? Perhaps it is just envy. We old timers need to be reminded that this hormonal surge has been time tested through millions of years of natural selection.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Why is man so susceptible to believing nonsense, or pretending to believe nonsense, just because his peers do? Man is a social animal. In times past, if he expressed deviant views he would be outcast from his group. That meant death. Man thus evolved the ability to suppress common sense in favour of group consensus. The key then to dispelling religious superstition is just to let everyone know there is a sizeable number of people to think it is bunk.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Wolves hunt the weakest and sickest individuals in a herd. Humans hunt the strongest and fittest. Wolves act like animal breeders to improve the stock. Humans…”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“Young chimps are brighter than young humans. Why then did humans develop technology and not chimps? Humans actively teach their young. Their young unquestioningly accept whatever they are told. Young chimps must learn solely by observing the adults.”
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)
“The extinction of an animal is an insult to God.”
~ Jewish saying
“Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.”
~ George Gaylord Simpson (born: 1902-06-16 died: 1984-10-06 at age: 82)
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