Design In Nature Quotes

• The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in nature is based upon the belief in God. Things are as they are whether there is a God or not. Logically, to believe in design one must start with God. He, or it, is not a conclusion but a datum. You may begin by assuming a creator, and then say he did this or that; but you cannot logically say that because certain things exist, therefore there is a God who made them. God is an assumption, not a conclusion. And it is an assumption that explains nothing.

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  Chapman Cohen

  God   Believe   Data  

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• By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.

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  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide   Suicidal   Reality  

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• The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

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  Claude Monet

  Inspirational   Life   Happiness  

  Claude Monet (1985). “Monet: a retrospective”

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• There is no better designer than nature

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  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion   Design   Designer  

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• The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.

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  Michael Behe

  Strong   Simple   Ducks  

  "Design for Living" by Michael Behe, www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2005.

  2003

• If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

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  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide   Self Harm   Suicidal  

  Antonin Artaud, Jack Hirschman (1963). “Artaud Anthology”, p.56, City Lights Books

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• Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

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  Michael Pollan

  Beautiful   Design   Miracle  

  Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World”, p.18, Random House

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• The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

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  Michael Shermer

  Ideas   Design   Brain  

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