Quotes About Creation Versus Evolution

#1. 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

#2. What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Mark Twain

#3. In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.

Eugenie Scott

#4. The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

Maurice Nicoll

#5. Life is chemistry, not biology.

Joey Lawsin

#6. Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

Arthur Keith

#7. Evolution is not measured by the advancement of ecocidal technology, but by our ability to comprehend, resonate and cooperate with the forces of creation. Our

Juliet And Jiva Carter

#8. His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#9. The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.

Homer W. Smith

#10. But I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.

E.J.H. Corner

#11. Each species is a masterpiece of evolution that humanity could not possibly duplicate even if we somehow accomplish the creation of new organisms by genetic engineering. - E. O. Wilson

Jerry A. Coyne

#12. If a man is able to submit himself to nature, then nature will react to his needs. Almighty nature is all powerful and all loving, for the laws of nature are for the creation and evolution of all beings and creatures throughout the cosmos. There is no greater kindness than the kindness of nature.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#13. As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.

Will Durant

#14. I do not think that there is any general statement in the Bible or any part of the account of creation, either as given in Genesis 1 and 2 or elsewhere alluded to, that need be opposed to evolution.

B. B. Warfield

#15. All of creation expands and evolves.

Jay Woodman

#16. Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.

Duane Gish

#17. [Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

Philip Johnson

#18. The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.

Joel Garreau

#19. Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along ... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.

John Colton

#20. In a perfectly designed world - one with no history - we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.

Neil Shubin

#21. Science can neither prove nor disprove Scripture; it can hope only to begin to understand it.

Ron Brackin

#22. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

Michael Ruse

#23. That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#24. The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.

Richard Dawkins

#25. If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

Martin Luther

#26. Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Robert A. Heinlein

#27. An all-out attack on evolutionist thinking is possibly the only real hope our nations have of rescuing themselves from an inevitable social and moral catastrophe.

Ken Ham

#28. Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#29. I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.

David Attenborough

#30. Nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of nature were built one upon the other, a progression of forward-striving forces would reveal itself in all evolution.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#31. 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

#32. I simply can't look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less.

Craig D. Lounsbrough