Evolution Is A Religion Quotes

#1. Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. - Author: James D. Watson

#2. Eileen says what they should really do, if they want to be fair about it, is offer a Bible study class for credit, and let us take that instead of sitting an extra hour in study hall, twiddling our so-called opposable thumbs. - Author: Laura Moriarty

#3. The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction. - Author: Jonathan Haidt

#4. The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion. - Author: Virchand Gandhi

#5. 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) - Author: Michael Shermer

#6. Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept. - Author: John Marburger

#7. How many races have been dehumanized in the name of evolution and scientific race theories? Is a bomb a religious or a scientific invention? - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#9. The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution. - Author: Kenneth E. Boulding

#10. When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for. - Author: Idries Shah

#11. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing. - Author: Isaac Newton

#12. There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this. - Author: Bill O'Reilly

#13. Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process of grafting must be individual. Every human soul must, through thought, prayer, and study, cultivate his [sic] own religion to suit himself. - Author: Lily Montagu

#14. It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased. - Author: Ken Ham

#15. Evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity, one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution. - Author: Michael Shermer

#16. One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. - Author: Idries Shah

#17. [E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. - Author: Edward O. Wilson

#18. What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution. - Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

#19. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today. - Author: Michael Ruse

#20. I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion displayed by its adherents precisely to the fact that it is thought to liberate us from religion. That world view is ripe for displacement ... - Author: Thomas Nagel

#21. Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse ... - Author: Steve Merrick

#22. Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots. - Author: Idries Shah

#23. Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port somewhere. The truth is that there is no safe port; man is in emptiness! Intellectual Evolution is our only chance to build a safe port by ourselves! - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself. - Author: Robert Wright

#25. However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747. - Author: Richard Dawkins

#26. The greatest impact of the Darwinian revolution...was that it completed the liberation from superstition and fear that began in the physical sciences a few centuries before. Man, too, is a natural phenomenon. [in "The evolutionary concept of man", 1972, p. 35.] - Author: George Gaylord Simpson

#27. As I see it, religion is at its best when it leads us forward, when it guides us in our spiritual growth as individuals and in our cultural evolution as a species. Unfortunately, - Author: Brian McLaren

#28. If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one. - Author: George Gaylord Simpson

#29. It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'. - Author: Idries Shah

#30. For the world of science and evolution is far more nameless and elusive and like a dream than the world of poetry and religion; since in the latter images and ideas remain themselves eternally, while it is the whole idea of evolution that identities melt into each other as they do in a nightmare. - Author: G.K. Chesterton

#31. A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands. - Author: Idries Shah

#32. Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism. - Author: Idries Shah

#33. A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so. - Author: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#34. Evolution is faith, a religion. - Author: Louis T. Moore

#35. Evolution is a religion; it is not science! - Author: Ken Ham