Archibald Alexander Quotes

What the evolutionist believes, on the basis of a mass of what seems to him un-refuted and irrefutable scientific evidence, is that the plants and animals and man and woman were not created by some sudden supernatural treatment of clay and ribs, but that they have slowly and gradually come into existence through the orderly processes of Nature extending over much time. He sees a fine and awe-inspiring order throughout Nature, some of which can be discovered and, in a measure, understood. He sees in this order, this immense capacity for natural being and doing and becoming, a beauty and majesty in Nature which cannot be transcended in conception. In recognizing the creation of man as its supreme achievement, he sees no belittling of man, but a proof of the extraordinary potentialities of this natural order. In organic evolution he sees just what the name signifies, the unfolding of organized matter, the outrolling of the possibilities of life.

Evolution, to me, is the best designer of all time.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

Nature does nothing in vain.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, and no good—nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.

I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

If I have learned nothing else …, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature.

All life forms obey Nature's demands—except man, who has found ways of ignoring them.

By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one....

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world....

Evolution never stops or ends. Such a cessation would be cataclysmic catastrophe.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

… the action of natural selection upon Man has ... been essentially diminished through the operation of social conditions

Evolutionary science kind of bears that out: When species are rivals and competing for space and resources, the superior one wins. Nature has no compunction about that; it just is.

There's nothing like evolution for engineering beautiful organisms.

We share deep admiration for evolution, a force of Nature that has led to the finest chemistry of all time, and to all living things on this planet.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)