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If you're sending a message to extraterrestrials, what you want to send is what's special about us and our planet - what is unusual. Now, that's not basic chemistry or mineralogy; it's pretty much the cultural stuff and the consequences of evolution.

~Frank Drake

Topics: About Basic Chemistry Consequences Cultural Evolution Extraterrestrial Message Much Now Our Our Planet Planet Pretty Send Sending Special Stuff Unusual Us Want You

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Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.

~Frank Peretti

Topics: Avoiding Basically Challenge Challenging Evolution God Issue Key Level Someone Spiritual Whole You

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There's a reason evolution is a hot-button issue. It's not just a matter of science, either. It's a matter of the big questions in life - why are we here, what is truth, where is our moral basis?

~Frank Peretti

Topics: Basis Big Big Questions Either Evolution Here Issue Just Life Matter Moral Our Questions Reason Science Truth Where Why

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The logical outcome of evolution is that it makes monsters. We turn into monsters because evolution takes away everything that makes us human in the sense of our moral accountability, our moral absolutes, and our idea of being distinct from the animal kingdom.

~Frank Peretti

Topics: Absolutes Accountability Animal Away Because Being Distinct Everything Evolution Human Idea Kingdom Logical Makes Monsters Moral Our Outcome Sense Takes Turn Us

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A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.

~Frank Tipler

Topics: Deals Environmental Essential Evolution Far Final Form Future Intelligent Life Limitations Machinery Machines More Our People Person Principle Regarding Reproduction Restricted Skin Than Understanding Which Whose Without

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We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Arguably Been Beginning Beings Evolution Human Human Beings Human Evolution Makes One Of The Things Since Things Tools Us

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I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to remember numbers, and now I... can just call them up instantly. And that's great. But what's happening right now is that we're in a phase of human evolution where we're merging with machines.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Call Direction Evolution Great Grew Happening Having Human Human Evolution Instantly Just Machines Maps Now Numbers Phase Phone Remember Right Sense Them Try Up Used Using Where I Can

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We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Actual Animals Evolution Indeed Motivations Need Process Self-Serving Separate Which

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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Besides Call Eternal Evil Evolution Moment Necessity Nothing Only Our Senses Spiritual World

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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Decisive Declare Evolution Former Happened Human Human Evolution Moment Movements Nothing Perpetual Revolutionary Right Spiritual Things Why Worthless

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