Quotes by George C. Williams - Page 1

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.
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Convinced
Light
Way
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The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.
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Doe
Reproduction
General Rule
Passed
Rule
Undergo
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Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
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Extinction
Lineage
Special
Threatened
Avoid
Evolving
Otherwise
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Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
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Attitude
Lasts
Ought
Traditional
Understanding
Accumulate
Attitudes
Biological
Religions
Disappeared
Foster
Last Century
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The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
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Doubt
Fallacy
Fertilization
Moments
Simple
Implies
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The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
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Decision
Devising
Helping
Human Life
Policy
Public Policy
Realistic
Views
Decisions
Arises
Gradually
Personal
View
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I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
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Adaptation
Assumption
Criticism
Species
Than Think Rather
Directed
Individuals
Main
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Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.
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Jobs
Wise
Avoidance
Powerful
Rebellion
Job
Against
Much
Fight
Strictly
Weaker
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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
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Capable
Circumstances
Numbers
Theory
Variation
Darwin
Empirical
Favorable
Generalizations
Increasing
Inherited
Organism
Strictly
Sufficiently
Variations
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Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.
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Body
Ends
Human Body
Respiratory
Throat
Two
Crossing
Descendant
Digestive
Systems
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