Because Quote by Greg Graffin

“This was the scientific age, and people wanted to believe that their traditions were in line with the new era, but this was impossible…

— Karen Armstrong

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

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational…

— Tom Wolfe

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the…

— Bill Gates

Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new…

— Bill Nye

Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives…

— Kenneth R. Miller

The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous…

— Richard Dawkins

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that…

— Henry M. Morris

Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just…

— Mary Midgley

“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

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet…

— Ann Druyan

In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations…

— Henry Lipson