“Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.” BelieveScienceBeliefEvolutionBasesSkepticismRefusal Author:Carrie Snow
“A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.” CultureBeliefEvolutionTraditionIntroductionCuisine Author:Vikas Khanna
“People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you.” PeopleIfsBelieveShowsBeliefReligiousAcceptingHappenedLove YouEvolutionGod LovePropositionsReligious BeliefCourtroomGod Loves YouEither Or Author:Eugenie Scott
“Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.” MeanBeliefPrinciplesTheoryEvolution Author:Alan I. Leshner
“Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It is, in fact, the product of converging evidence from many, many different fields of science. Many, many thousands of studies that, in fact, have provided a theory, an organizing principal in fact, that describes how humans came to be.” PeopleHumansDifferentFactsBeliefStudyFieldsProductsTheoryEvolutionEvidenceEducatedPrincipal Author:Alan I. Leshner
“Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.” ThinkingWorldWayEarthBeliefSinFineEvolutionBlindCosmosNew WaysInvitedWay Of ThinkingAdmirableEccentricBlind FaithUnchangingSpunSpecksRationaleCausationCobwebsNew Ways Of Thinking Author:Adrian Desmond
“The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence of God as creator of the universe, There can be no incompatibility between Christian faith and proven facts concerning geology, biology, and astronomy. There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.” NeedsLongStatesFactsUseEarthChristianOrderFallUniverseBeliefStarsReligiousTeachSkyLandEvolutionStandingCreatorAstronomyBiologyFlatsAffectedProvenReligious FaithTextbooksChristian FaithGeologyOmnipotenceIncompatibilityGeorgians Author:Jimmy Carter
“Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands of comments, I have never named my beliefs, although readers have freely informed me that I am an atheist, and agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist - which I am.” BeliefDesignEvolutionReaderIntelligentAtheistEndlessDiscussionHumanistCommentSecularAgnosticBlogsIntelligent Design Author:Roger Ebert
“Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.” CultureBeliefEvolutionEvolvePersistBiological Evolution Book:The God Delusion Source: The God Delusion
“As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.” WorldWayYearsCountryWould BeEarthChristianBeliefNaturalAtheismTeachingStudentsEvolutionPoliticianEvidenceWesternPositive AtheismOne WayReasonableHospitalsMechanismPropositionsSelectionControversialReconcileNatural SelectionBelief In GodDeductionsDenominationsScandinaviansChristian DenominationsJay Gould Author:Katha Pollitt
“Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious beliefs from contradiction by science. They used to do it by prohibiting teachers from teaching evolution at all; then they wanted to teach intelligent design as an alternative theory; now they want the supposed "weaknesses" in evolution pointed out. But it's all the same program - it's all an attempt to let religious ideas determine what is taught in science courses.” ThinkingKnowsWantTryingIdeasWantedUsedCoursesBeliefReligiousBehindsTeachTeacherAtheismTeachingDesignTaughtTheoryEvolutionProtectWeaknessProgramArgumentIntelligentDeterminePositive AtheismAlternativesContradictionReligious BeliefInvokeIntelligent Design Author:Steven Weinberg
“No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.” WorldMindReasonUniverseBeliefForceTeachingProduceTheoryEvolutionBlindCriticalAccidentsFantasticOrganized Author:Alice Hegan Rice
“I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. My $250,000 offer demonstrates that the hypothesis of evolution is nothing more than a religious belief.” GivingBeliefReligiousEvolutionOffersEvidenceStandingScaryProofHypothesisReligious BeliefEmpirical Evidence Author:Kent Hovind
“Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method. Dogbert: But science is based on the irrational belief that because we cannot perceive reality all at once, things called time and cause and effect exist. Dilbert: That's what I was taught and that's what I believe. Dogbert: Sounds cultish.” BelieveRealityScienceBeliefI BelieveCausesSoundEffectsTaughtEvolutionAccountsMethodConclusionBeing TruePerceiveLogicalIrrationalCause And EffectScientific MethodDilbertIrrational Beliefs Author:Scott Adams
“Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a faith-based initiative in rhetorical argument. Should we teach I.D. in America's public schools? Yes, let's do - not as science, but alongside other spiritual beliefs, such as Islam, Zoroastrianism and the Hindu Idea that Earth rests on Chukwa, the giant turtle.” ShouldIdeasSchoolEarthAmericaSpiritualBeliefCausesTeachDesignTheoryEvolutionArgumentIntelligentIslamGiantsInitiativeExplainingPublic SchoolTurtlesIntelligent DesignScientific TheoryRhetoricalFaith BasedSpiritual Beliefs Author:David Quammen