Christianity Quote by Adrian Desmond

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

— Arthur Peacocke

“The second irony of evolutionary biology is that this transubstantiation of natural theology into the grand narrative of natural selection has itself taken the…

— Abigail Lustig

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

— Mark Twain

“There is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.”

— John C. Eccles

“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot by the…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“The only way in which Darwin's data made sense was to suppose that species battled for survival, and that evolution came when one slight…

— Diarmaid MacCulloch

“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the beginning of the eighteenth century, De Maillet made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [ of evolution ] to the…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

— Henry Norman Hudson

I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not…

— Anonymous

“Reverend Easter waved her hand dismissively. “It doesn’t matter to God what we call ourselves, or even what we call Him. We’re the only…

— Hillary Jordan

“The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr