Literalism Quotes by Reverend Malcolm Boyd

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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,… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Joseph Campbell
• The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said… — Sam Harris
• In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two… — Stephen Jay Gould

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