Abel Quote by Elie Wiesel

I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

— Elie Wiesel

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more…

— Richard Dawkins

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

— George Whitefield

To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.

— Frank Delaney

It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages.

— Robert Winston

“. . .because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones that rose from the dark earth and sang as…

— Lisel Mueller

I was never raised with the traditional story of creation in religion, and because of that I think I had a lot of questions.…

— Greg Graffin

The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to…

— Daniel Quinn

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but…

— Clive Barker

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have…

— Karen Armstrong

The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have…

— Adam Hamilton

If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our…

— Ken Ham