Quotes about Adaptation

My stride is perfect for 15 steps till I cross the seventh hurdle when I switch to 17 steps.

PART OF THE GENIUS of genuine Christianity is that each generation has to think it through afresh.

hold it, then, as an axiom — or else I'd stop writing right now — that our calling is to follow Jesus in our context rather than to retrieve and re-create his context in our world. What

The question we need to ask today is this, and this question strikes to the heart of how we read the Bible: Do we seek to retrieve that cultural world and those cultural expressions, or do we live the same gospel in a different way in a different day?

The entire sweep of the Bible teaches that Christians in non-Christian environments are not to be worried so much about changing their environments as they are to remain faithful in whatever kind of environment they find themselves.

We aren't called to live first-century lives in the twenty-first century, but twenty-first-century lives as we walk in the light of the revelation God gave to us in the first century.

David Brooks, commenting on the workplace, once said, "Never underestimate the power of the environment you work in to gradually transform who you are. When you choose to work at a certain company, you are turning yourself into the sort of person who works in that company

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Brands need to reinvent themselves from time to time to stay relevant.

For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.