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It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.
Greg Graffin
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Greg Graffin
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 6
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Gregory Walter Graffin
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Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.
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The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
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I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.
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A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
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When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the universe. I don't know if that feeling is enough to replace the solace of religion in the lives of most people, but it is for me.
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So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
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....the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.
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If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.
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I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.
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We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.
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I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
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Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.
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It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult the evolutionary biologists, because they are the ones who invented the idea of competition. It comes from the field of evolution.
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I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about math and science. Well we don't know enough about science and particularly biology, which is such a huge field.
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I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.
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