Literalism Quotes
9 quotes by 7 authors
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In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism.…
— William Sloane Coffin
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
— Reverend Malcolm Boyd
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All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me…
— E. O. Wilson
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It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood,"…
— Cassandra Clare
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When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost.…
— Joseph Campbell
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The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.
— Sam Harris
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In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of…
— Stephen Jay Gould
Who Wrote These Literalism Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 9 Literalism Quotes as follows: