Quotes About Creationism

#1. I believe that's a key motivation to creationism: the need to feel less inconsequential.

A. J. Jacobs

#2. Take Creationism. Please.

Al Stefanelli

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

Bill Nye

#4. Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

Isaac Asimov

#5. If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it.

Henry Rollins

#6. Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

Margaret Mead

#7. Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism

Robert E. Ornstein

#8. 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

#9. I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that the Earth is 6,000 years old. As I understand it, this involves the Bible's Old Testament exclusively.

Bill Nye

#10. Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.

Christine O'Donnell

#11. They fight against popular creationism, but at the same time they fight fanatically for their own creationism," he

John Brockman

#12. Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

William A. Dembski

#13. To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment.

Isaac Asimov

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

Roberto Quaglia

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

Katha Pollitt

#16. 'Intelligent Design,' the relabeled, repackaged form of American creationism, has always had a problem. It just can't seem to produce any evidence.

Kenneth R. Miller

#17. Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are so tiny as to require a 'miracle' for spontaneous generation tantamount to a theological argument.

Chandra Wickramasinghe

#18. You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day". Yeah, looks like He rushed it

Bill Hicks

#19. It's dead obvious that creationism isn't science, or even bad science. It's nonsense. But I've long stated it's also bad religion, because it doesn't just take faith, it also takes a phenomenal disregard of reality.

Phil Plait

#20. I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, "We shouldn't be teaching creationism." Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

Eugenie Scott

#21. I maintain that (as usual) many sides exist to this issue rather than only two. Two-sided issues (creationism vs darwinism, "choice" vs "pro-life," etc.) are all without exception delusions, spectacular lies.

Hakim Bey

#22. Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

Sam Kean

#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. In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.

Wendy Kaminer

#25. 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

#26. To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

Alan Wolfe

#27. Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.

Bill Nye

#28. You ever notice that everyone who believes in creationism looks really un-evolved?

Bill Hicks

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

Ben Carson

#30. tried to impose 'intelligent design' creationism on the science curriculum of a local public school - a move of 'breathtaking inanity', to quote Judge Jones

Richard Dawkins

#31. The unspooling of the skein of the genome has effectively abolished racism and creationism, and the amazing findings of Hubble and Hawking have allowed us to guess at the origins of the cosmos. But how much more addictive is the familiar old garbage about tribe and nation and faith.

Christopher Hitchens

#32. 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

#33. Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

Bill Nye

#34. You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion.

Jerry A. Coyne

#35. 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

#36. All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don't believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax.

P. J. O'Rourke

#37. You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that's not a balance, that's misleading and it's just wrong.

Robin Ince

#38. Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

Arthur C. Clarke

#39. Ever noticed that people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved?

Bill Hicks

#40. Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

Richard Dawkins

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.

Terry Pratchett

#44. The Creationists, like all bigots, derive their fervour from rejection
the more they can reject, the more righteous they themselves feel.

John Berger

#45. I imagine God creating humans was much like cavemen creating fire ... First it sparkles brightly, full of life and beauty. But then it grows, stronger and fiercer until it becomes dangerous and uncontrollable ... Then its creator can only stand on the hill and wait for his creation to die.

Ben Mitchell

#46. Life continues even if no one has proven to us the shape and size of the Earth, even if no one has informed us about the composition of air and the depth of sky.
We will not float in weightlessness simply because we have not read the lesson on gravity.

Danail Hristov

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.

Gary Malone

#51. That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply the random result of billions of years of chemical reactions and accidents influenced by pressures from the environment? ... "
-Jules, BOOM

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

#52. We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.

U.G. Krishnamurti

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

Dara O Briain

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

Nancy Pearcey

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

Kevin Michel

#58. Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

Mark Twain

#59. Every single Biblical doctrine of theology, directly or indirectly, ultimately has its basis in the book of Genesis.

Ken Ham

#60. 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

#61. In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.

Jonathan Clements

#62. The efforts of apologists to find genuinely distinguished modern scientists who are religious have an air of desperation, generating the unmistakably hollow sound or bottoms of barrels being scraped.

Richard Dawkins

#63. 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

#64. Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.

David Brewster

#65. It wearied Carter to see how solemnly people tried to make earthly reality out of old myths which every step of their boasted science confuted.

H.P. Lovecraft

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

Stephen Hawking

#67. Something only exists when nothing exists; Nothing only exists when something exists.

Joey Lawsin

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

Abhijit Naskar

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

Anonymous

#70. It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#71. 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

#72. The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?

Judith Hayes

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

Lance Parkin

#74. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Aldous Huxley