"To believe that ‘Human beings are the best that evolution has produced’ is similar to believing that ‘The Earth is the center of the Universe’."
— Rawjeev
"The organism and the environment are not actually separately determined. The environment is not a structure imposed on living beings from the outside but is in fact a creation of those beings. The environment is not an autonomous process but a reflection of the biology of the species. Just as there is no organism without an environment, so there is no environment without an organism."
— Francisco J. Varela, Evan T. Thompson, Eleanor Rosch ( The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience)
"Evolution is a process that sorts for what works, and “better” is discarded as easily as “worse”—if it doesn’t work"
— Daniel Quinn (The Story of B)
"Natural selection is a process that separates the workable from the unworkable, not the perfect from the imperfect."
— Daniel Quinn (Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure )
Were Darwin’s ideas only a part of the story?
