People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.
America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'
Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it.
I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
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