#descent

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Yeah, cause that would be a smart choice. So, I should just forget about the whole lying to me thing when you pronounce you will never do it again?” “Yes.” “You’d have a better chance getting a donkey to shit gold.” From Witch Devotions. Coming out 2012!


Elizabeth J. Kolodziej


#romance #snarky-quotes #the-last-witch-series #vampire #vampyre-kisses

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.


William Henry Ashley


#april #began #board #boat #departure

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.


Arthur Erickson


#again #became #convincing #descent #design

To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's through descent with modification driven by the Darwinian mechanism. But within a design-theoretic framework, this possibility, though not precluded, is also not the only game in town. It's possible for descent with modification instead to be driven by telic processes inherent in nature (and thus by a form of design). Alternatively, it's possible that the similarities are not due to descent at all but result from a similarity of conception, just as designed objects like your TV, radio, and computer share common components because designers frequently recycle ideas and parts. Teasing apart the effects of intelligent and natural causation is one of the key questions confronting a design-theoretic research program. Unlike Darwinism, therefore, intelligent design has no immediate and easy answer to the question of common descent. Darwinists necessarily see this as a bad thing and as a regression to ignorance. From the design theorists' perspective, however, frank admissions of ignorance are much to be preferred to overconfident claims to knowledge that in the end cannot be adequately justified. Despite advertisements to the contrary, science is not a juggernaut that relentlessly pushes back the frontiers of knowledge. Rather, science is an interconnected web of theoretical and factual claims about the world that are constantly being revised and for which changes in one portion of the web can induce radical changes in another. In particular, science regularly confronts the problem of having to retract claims that it once confidently asserted.


William A. Dembski


#conclusions #darwinism #evidence #evolution #homology

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.


Joni Mitchell


#descent #eye #individual #into #ironically

My life has been one long descent into respectability.


Mandy Rice-Davies


#descent #into #life #long #my life

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.


Ambrose Bierce


#care #descent #did #genealogy #his

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.


Rita Ora


#i #latin #mistaken #often #spanish

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.


Francis Parkman


#descent #found #humanity #scale #visible

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.


Marco Rubio


#children #descent #desperately #give #had