What began in 1983 as a noble piece of federal legislation that sought to place science ahead of politics, and fairness, equity, and openness above congressional parochialism has degenerated into a technical and ethical quagmire, where facts are routinely twisted to serve predetermined ends and where «might makes right» has replaced «consultation, concurrence, and cooperation» as the federal mantra for the program. (sric.org)
When a chrysalis shelters an insect that later bursts forth from it and leaves it shattered, the chrysalis has in fact fulfilled its true and predetermined end. (firstthings.com)
The correlative of the fact that there is no predetermined end is that there is real freedom, limited though it is, and limited as the choices are which we are able to make, they are really free and open. (religion-online.org)