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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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"Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt."
"Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!"
"Researchers have found that people (and animals) presented with large portions will eat up to 30 percent more than they could otherwise. Human appetite, it turns out, is surprisingly elastic, which makes excellent evolutionary sense: It behooved our hunter gatherer ancestors to feast whenever the opportunity presented itself, allowing them to build up reserves of fat against future famine."
"It is the culture that makes the difference. When there is no internal transformation, there cannot be external progress and development whatsoever."
"What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution."
"Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles."
"Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says 'All for me' is a horror to us."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it."
"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."
"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."
"In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution."
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