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Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball composed of flakes of circumstance down a hill... there is no planning to the resultant moster ball, only a law: The ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.

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Evolution is a feedback mechanism exactly like that of the centrifugal governor of the steam engine, which checks and corrects any irregularities almost before they become evident.

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Evolution is a matter largely concerning environmental pressures on populations, whereas darwin emphasized competition between individuals of the same species.

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The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex

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Evolution is (insofar as by evolution we mean natural selection) is not a testable scientific theory, but rather a metaphysical research program.

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Evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.

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Evolution is a change from a state of relatively indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity.

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Evolution is a metaphysical precommittment rather than a fact because its logic is ultimately tautological... namely, the evolutionist necessarily starts with a prescientific commitment to naturalism (i.e. Explanation without reference to divine causes), which, in turn, constrains one to evolutionary process.

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Evolution is a mighty doctrine such that nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it . . . Except for evolution.

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