Creation Ex Nihilo Quotes

#1. There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.

E. T. Whittaker

#2. When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off.

Michael Shermer

#3. Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

Michael Badnarik

#5. I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.

Jerry Hall

#6. I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Cornelia Funke

#7. There are jobs, money and survival in renewable energy. Our only safe future is sun power

Dave Hampton

#8. None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#9. But inside of me I knew that the Olympics were still there. I was still young enough. I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back.

Angela Ruggiero

#10. Min, you're a friend," he protested. "I don't think of you as a woman." It was the wrong thing to say; he knew it as soon as the words left his mouth.

Robert Jordan

#11. People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

Dashiell Hammett

#12. I remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.

Rick Riordan

#13. A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis.

Henry F. Schaefer, III

#14. It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country-and especially the rights of trade unionists-if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.

Michael Foot

#15. It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.

Ann Dowd