“Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time… — Danail Hristov Copy Share Image
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
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… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
“This matter of how best to interpret the term "day" in Genesis 1 is not one over which evangelical believers should quarrel;… — John Christian Wenger Copy Share Image
We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Don't creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with the 'human leg and foot bones,' rather than… — Edward Babinski Copy Share Image
“Thomas Wollaston, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, complained that Darwin did no seem to know what a species actually… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
“This brings me back to the statement that thee is no such thing as living matter. In the cell, all the parts… — Wallace Johnson Copy Share Image
“I came into the room, which was half dark, and presently spotted Lord Kelvin in the audience and realised that I was… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately… — William Paley Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Why has the medical profession not taken advantage of the help available from evolutionary biology, a well-developed branch of science with great… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Linda continued stubbornly, “Evolution can’t be true, because if humans evolved from apes, then why are there still apes?” “Frankly, Linda, it… — Diogenes of Mayberry Copy Share Image
“Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has probably been more widely read—and more widely misinterpreted—than any other book in the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Recently, a professor at Penn State told my son Joshua's class that during a trip to Africa, he had a mysterious encounter… — Jack Cuozzo Copy Share Image
“[N]early every creationist debater will mention the second law of thermodynamics and argue that complex systems like the earth and life cannot… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God. — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
“The efforts of apologists to find genuinely distinguished modern scientists who are religious have an air of desperation, generating the unmistakably hollow… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example,… — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
“Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The creationists have this creator who is evil, who is small-minded, who is malevolent, and who is not very bright and can't… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a "viable" explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Biochemists assume that the three cellular kingdoms evolved from a single common ancestor, because the alternative of supposing an independent origin of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“To deny the existence of God would be to close your eyes to the beauty around you, to close your ears to… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
![“[N]early every creationist debater will mention the second law of thermodynamics and argue that complex systems like the earth and life cannot evolve, because the second law seems to say that everything in nature is running down and losing energy, not getting more complex. But that's NOT what the…” quote by Donald R. Prothero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e7a/donald-r-prothero-47249_complex-systems_n-early-every-creationist-debater-will-m_881012.jpg)
![“The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a "viable" explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I'm not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.” quote by Bill Nye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/771/bill-nye-1613_answers_the-debate-in-undeniable-was-nominally-a_2118596.jpg)
