I sended it to lots of people, but i wonder is the guys will be OK if that is shared via networks like myspace and facebook. I want to share it with everybody to promote them!
The most elegant of ideas.
Replace the savage races.
The value of life.
Consider our equal.
No wishes, no affection.
A mere heart of stone.
Control your thoughts.
We wish to be created at once.
Mutation of species.
Man is descended.
The ideas.. people made a religion of them.
Indelible stamp of lowly origin.
Collaborate and improvise.
No design, no purpose.
Ignorance begets confidence.
A spherical continuum.
Thanks, Billy. Thanks to that we now have quite a bit more.
For instance:
"Indelible stamp of lowly origin."
"Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
Charles Darwin,
The Descent of Man (1871)
"We wish to be created at once"
"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universes, nay whole systems of universes to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."
Charles Darwin's Notebook N
Imagine having a revolutionary idea, and then sitting on it for more than 20 years. That's what Charles Darwin did. His theory that nature — not God — was responsible for the marvelous variety of life on Earth was heretical. But then a young butterfly collector forced Darwin's hand.
"Collaborate and Improvise"
“In the long history of humankind, those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” Charles Darwin
"Ignorance begets confidence"
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
Soooo, ALL of them are from him.
OK, this together with the human hands as birds legs gives something more.
I want the real album, it will give so much more!
Many — if not most — Americans think of the creation and evolution controversy as a dichotomy with "creationists" on one side, and "evolutionists" on the other.
A snippet:
"I have no doubt that scientific criticism will prove destructive to the forms of supernaturalism which enter into the constitution of existing religions. On trial of any so-called miracle the verdict of science is "Not proven." But true Agnosticism will not forget that existence, motion, and law-abiding operation in nature are more stupendous miracles than any recounted by the mythologies, and that there may be things, not only in the heavens and Earth, but beyond the intelligible universe, which "are not dreamt of in our philosophy." The theological "gnosis" would have us believe that the world is a conjuror's house; the anti-theological "gnosis" talks as if it were a "dirt-pie" made by the two blind children, Law and Force. Agnosticism simply says that we know nothing of what may be beyond phenomena." (Huxley 1884)
"Indelible stamp of lowly origin."
"Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
Charles Darwin,
The Descent of Man (1871)
Another interesting fact is that Darwin was a theologian and became an agnostic through his scientific discoveries. Huxley, a supporter of Darwin shaped the term agnosticism.
There is also another connection between religion and evolution: Nowadays there is a discussion if religion can be considered as a byproduct of human evolution; just an evolutionary advantage. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evoluti...gy_of_religion
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