Quotes about Evolution

Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man will do . . . , he shall know .

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Most of us fear that in growing old, we'll become a shell of ourselves. But, of course, it's the youthful versions of ourselves that are our shells; we must leave them behind like a snakeskin. We must grow out of ourselves to grow beyond our old limits, or else risk being suffocated by the sediment of our own history.

Humans were designed by evolution to live in societies, but they may not understand how societies work.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

I think of Christians who, having been raised to read the Genesis creation story as literal science and history, leave for college, watch the History Channel, or log onto the internet, and find out that fossils and radiometric dating are in fact not hoaxes. That's how nice Christian college freshmen become atheists by Christmas break. If your faith can unravel that quickly, it's enough to make you question whether your faith is worth the effort at all.

And again, the genius of the laws is their ambiguity, not their clarity, for their ambiguity is the very thing that allows them to gain new life with each passing year, ensuring that past and present forever remain connected and in dialogue.

reality isn't what it used to be.

adapting the past to speak to changing circumstances in the present.

Without its unwavering commitment to adaptation over time, the Bible would have died a quick death over two thousand years ago. Its existence as a source of spiritual truth that transcends specific times and places is made possible by its flexibility and adaptive nature—one of the many paradoxes we need to embrace when it comes to the Bible.