Literalism Quotes

9 quotes by 7 authors

• 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
• 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
• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality. — Reverend Malcolm Boyd
• All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. — Stephen Jay Gould
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 3 Literalism Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
• 1 Literalism Quote by William Sloane Coffin
• 1 Literalism Quote by Reverend Malcolm Boyd
• 1 Literalism Quote by E. O. Wilson
• 1 Literalism Quote by Cassandra Clare
• 1 Literalism Quote by Joseph Campbell
• 1 Literalism Quote by Sam Harris