Alongside Quote by Neil MacGregor

“Religious discourse was not intended to be understood literally because it was only possible to speak about a reality that transcended language in symbolic…

— Karen Armstrong

The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of…

— Christopher Hitchens

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

— Neil MacGregor

…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

“Thus far it has become clear that the biblical creation narratives represent another way of speaking about reality than that with which we are…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“If we follow the sense of the literature and its ideas of creation, we find that people in the ancient Near East did not…

— John H. Walton

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the…

— Jane Caputi

In the beginning was the myth.

— Hermann Hesse

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when it was,…

— Elisha Gray

In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.

— Ryan Miller

“The same pattern of the creation by supernatural gods of an ordered Universe out of Chaos occurs over and over again in various mythologies,…

— Isaac Asimov