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"In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution."
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"The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind."
"If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God."
"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."
"As we transcended and transformed from Neanderthal so will future humans transcend to a new level of consciousness and transform into a super human or homo-cosmicus."
"I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby."
"Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely."
"It is the culture that makes the difference. When there is no internal transformation, there cannot be external progress and development whatsoever."
"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them."
"We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion."
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"We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it."
"Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each."
"Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good."
"Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century."
"For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity."
"The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing."
"God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world."
"In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution."
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