You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.
Interpretation
Understanding life and biology requires grasping the concept of evolution.
In this quote, Richard Dawkins emphasizes that a fundamental comprehension of biology is impossible without acknowledging evolution as the framework for life. He argues that evolution not only explains how life has developed over time but also provides insight into the purpose and nature of living beings.
In practice
In a lecture on biological sciences, you can use this quote to highlight the importance of evolution in understanding life.
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.
Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.
Everything was so new - the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.
It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just wonβt. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. We understand there are bigger problems we need to solve as a species than what God you pray to.
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
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