cornelia m. beilke

“I understand why some religious people don’t like Darwin’s work on evolution. Early evolutionary theory seemed to suggest that the existence of God and, consequently, the God-mandated practice of ethical conduct are not fundamental to humankind. Evolution teaches that being human is being an animal, different from and yet fundamentally the same as other animals—not a uniquely privileged creature made by God in God’s own image. The will to survive is basic to all animals. The fittest survive.”
― Norman Fischer, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path