Augustine Quote by Richard Dawkins

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

— George Smoot

St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science…

— Richard Dawkins

“There was a long pause. “you know,” he went on, “I sometimes think mankind is dangerously arrogant. We do a few sums, and then…

— Jan Siegel

“The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual—even redemptive—but not religious. The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the same thought,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be…

— Fred Hoyle

Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests,…

— Geoffrey Burbidge

Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning…

— Isaac Asimov

The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable. It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang. Sometimes we expect…

— Buddy Wakefield

It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.

— Richard J. Foster

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“The tension between religion and science is an old problem. In the fourth century, Christians and scientists were deadlocked over the matter of the…

— Ronald W. Dworkin

“Without faith, there is no proper understanding by which a man can judge. As Augustine well said, 'I believe in order to understand'.”

— Greg L. Bahnsen