Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
quote by Ronald Fisher
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Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.
quote by Michael Behe
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
quote by Vernor Vinge
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Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring. The offspring, also, will thus have a better chance of surviving, for, of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection.
quote by Charles Darwin
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Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.
quote by Phillip E. Johnson
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Ophelie
(Lenny KravitzLenny Kravitz)
All I give
Is all I got
And all I am
Ain't what I'm not
And I ain't gonna lie or beg
For your love
I'm on a natural high
When morning comes
Take my hand
To free your mind
Come to my land
But I ain't gonna lie or beg
For your love
I'm on a natural high
And I don't require no service
And I'll make sweet love to you
Every day and night
I live my life for you
I'm on a natural high
All I give
Is all I got
And all I am
Ain't what I'm not
And I ain't gonna lie or beg
For your love
I'm on a natural high
song performed by by Vanessa Paradis
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Natural High
Ooo!
Who needs the sky?
Just watch me fly
I'm on a natural high
We're on a natural high
Who needs the sky?
You can just watch me fly
On a natural high
So you won't turn and sigh
And I feel like I'm 13
[vocals fade and blur]
Layin' on the sky
Feel like I'm sailing through a fire
Like a bird I can fly on a natural high
Letting out a scream
Like I'm sailing through a dream
Like a bird I can fly on a natural high
Caught in the sky
Who can I tie?
Oooo...
Letting out a scream
Like I'm sailing through a dream
Bird I can fly on a natural high
Letting out a scream
Like I'm sailing through a dream
Bird I can fly on a natural high
Eeeeeeoooooaaaaa....
Caught in the sky (caught in the sky)
Who can I tie? (who can I tie
song performed by by Sting
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Space Girl Blues
Space girls are as cold as ice
Theyll kiss you once and kiss you twice
Youll shiver and shake and then turn blue
Next you got the space girl blues
I want your mechanism
Give me your mechanism
Space girls always smoke for taste
Swallow butts and leave no waste
Just to show that they dont care
Theyll bite your face and burn the hair
Sado-maso is the rule
You want them they dont want you
The sun comes up the moon boo-hoos
Next you got the spacegirl blues
I need your mechanism
Destroy your mechanism
Destroy it!!
song performed by by Devo
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Natural selection is not evolution.
quote by Ronald Fisher
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Natural High
Written by: lenny kravitz
All I give
Is all I got
And all I am
Aint what Im not
And I aint gonna lie or beg
For your love
Im on a natural high
When morning comes
Take my hand
To free your mind
Come to my land
But I aint gonna lie or beg
For your love
Im on a natural high
And I dont require no service
And Ill make sweet love to you
Every day and night
I live my life for you
Im on a natural high
All I give
Is all I got
And all I am
Aint what Im not
And I aint gonna lie or beg
For your love
Im on a natural high
song performed by by Lenny Kravitz
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Natural High
All I give
Is all I got
And all I am
Aint what Im not
And I aint gonna lie or beg
For your love
Im on a natural high
When morning comes
Take my hand
To free your mind
Come to my land
But I aint gonna lie or beg
For your love
Im on a natural high
And I dont require no service
And Ill make sweet love to you
Every day and night
I live my life for you
Im on a natural high
All I give
Is all I got
And all I am
Aint what Im not
And I aint gonna lie or beg
For your love
Im on a natural high
song performed by by Vanessa Paradis
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The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
quote by Douglas Feith
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
quote by Barbara Ehrenreich
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
quote by Raymond Chandler
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
quote by Charles Robert Darwin
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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
quote by Konrad Lorenz
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Simple Observation #192 - Natural Selection seems to be......
Natural selection seems to be another term for the will of God operating in creation
and evolution is the overall process through which It maintains this vital relation.
poem by George Krokos
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
quote by Daniel Dennett
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Jesus And Magdalene
Archetypes of human perfection
Completion of the Yin and Yang
Capstones of natural selection
Betrothed, while Angels sang
ROTMS
poem by Ray Lucero
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Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.
quote by Peter R. Grant
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I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
quote by Luther Burbank
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