This week we take a look at what the term evolution really means.  What is the difference between micro and macro evolution.  Don’t forget that God loves you! “Life is one of the strangest phenomena known.  In my opinion it shows that the universe is capable of almost anything.  Yet it amazes me that we know so much about how the universe began many billions of years ago, but we have yet to discover how life itself began.  The most likely explanation is probably that we are an accident.  Just by chance, some molecules bumped into each other at random, until finally one formed that could copy itself.  Then began the slow process of evolution that led to all the extraordinary diversity of life on earth.  Life seems to be simply what matter does given the right conditions and enough time.” (Hawking, Into the Universe with Sephen Hawking:The Story of Everything, 2011)   “As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected.  From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.”  Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, Page 6 “Owing to this struggle, variations, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if they be in any degree profitable to the individuals of a species, in their infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to their physical conditions of life, will tend to the preservation of such individuals, and will generally be inherited by the offspring…I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to, man’s power of selection.”  Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, Page 61 “It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets?” Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, p. 77 “In living bodies, variation will cause the slight alterations, generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural selection will pick out with unerring skill each improvement.” (Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, p. 176)

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