"I think that some "interventionist theisms" are compatible with evolutionary theory. (By "intervention," I don't mean that God violates laws of nature; I mean that God affects what happens in nature in ways that are additional to the ones that deism recognizes.)"

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Elliott Sober

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Law Quotes

“Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.”
“When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.”
“Focusing on the good isnâ€™t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. Itâ€™s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.”
“You can't mine coal without machine guns.”
“To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.”

Source : Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.128
“There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.”

Source : Quoted in Time magazine, December 8, 1930.
“Everything ends. But there are always new beginnings.”
“If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.”

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