Evolution And Creationism Quotes

#1. Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

Ben Carson

#2. I'm smart enough to know that I don't know shit.

Unknown

#3. more smoothly than you have done this

Elizabeth Chater

#4. That scientifically savvy philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out that evolution counters one of the oldest ideas we have: 'the idea that it takes a big fancy smart thing to make a lesser thing. I call that the trickle-down theory of creation.

Richard Dawkins

#5. Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the worst way to explain the mysteries of life, except for Creationism.

Roberto Quaglia

#6. In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

Katha Pollitt

#7. So put your stubbornness to rest,
Yes, open up your eyes.
No big bang has ever happened,
Was God brought us to life.

Kari L. Greenaway

#8. Q: But what do you think that the Bible, itself, says? Don't you know how it was arrived at?
A: I never made a calculation
Q: What do you think?
A: I do not think about things I don't think about.
Q: Do you think about things you do think about?
A: Well, sometimes.

Scopes Trial

#9. The surname of an atheist is compound unfortunate plus being, therefore unfortunate-beings, making all atheists unfortunate beings because human beings are created by God and not products of big bang atoms undergoing evolution.

S. E. Entsua-Mensah

#10. America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe in creationism. The left in evolution.

John Sayles

#11. Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Clifford D. Simak

#12. We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.

Michele Bachmann

#13. If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths?

Dara O Briain

#14. Somehow creationists keep us naturalists in track to some extent. They are the representation of human stupidity at its extreme. And we need some stupidity in the society for true intellect to be adored.

Abhijit Naskar

#15. The debate that has been conducted in terms of "creation versus evolution" has gotten caught up with all kinds of other debates, and this has provided a singularly unhelpful backdrop to the would-be serious discussion of other parts of the Bible.

N. T. Wright

#16. What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God.

Kevin Michel

#17. Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine

#18. One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California ... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

Diane Mott Davidson

#19. The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution

Lance Parkin

#20. Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

Michael Shermer

#21. Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

Bill Nye

#22. An atheist's response to a creationist asking 'what if' there was a God,
That would be quite an unsettling thought.

Anonymous

#23. An ancient predator walks amongst us. He is neither man nor animal. He is the by passer of evolution, a blight on creationism, and the nightmare of man given form.

Robert G. Moons

#24. It takes not a few centuries, or even millenniums, but millions of years for a subtle evolutionary change to become noticeable.

Abhijit Naskar

#25. If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.

Richard Dawkins

#26. Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

Stephen Hawking

#27. Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter movement ... who believe that every word in the Bible must be literally true, whatever such a claim might mean.

Stephen Jay Gould

#28. You never get fed up scoring goals

Alan Shearer

#29. There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.

Thomas Sowell

#31. Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

Stephen Jay Gould

#32. The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem.

Deepak Chopra

#33. If we are merely a chance product of 'random happenstance' and nothing more, doesn't it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of 'random happenstance' with such methodical complexity?

Craig D. Lounsbrough