“If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity. If we are going to allow ourselves the luxury of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it!” IfsKnowsWorldWantFirstsWellsHas BeensMightJobsExistenceEvolutionCapableComplexesEducatedLuxuryExplanationComplexityOrganizedOfferingEngineeringNaiveDeitiesBishopsProdigiousCreationistExistence Of LifeBible Thumpers Author:Richard Dawkins
“However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.” IfsKnowsReasonMightWould BeNightStrongForceLeaderMillionsLaughingEvolutionArgumentArmyPhilosophicalMereMarchFrighteningHelplessHammersRecruitImperviousCreationist Author:Isaac Asimov
“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.” DreamScienceNightReligionSoundReligiousAtheismTheoryEvolutionAtheistDrunkAll NightPhilosophy Of ReligionCreationismTheistScientific TheoryAnti ReligiousReligious PhilosophyPhilosophy And ReligionFunny AtheistAnti AtheistGreatest AtheistBeing DrunkCreationist Author:Isaac Asimov
“Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.” WorldHateEvolutionUnbelievableCreationismCreationistHate God Author:Ray Comfort
“Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional forms by ignoring those that have been found, and continuing to taunt us with admittedly frequent examples of absence.” Has BeensStillsFactsFormFoundExampleEvolutionArgumentRefuseAbsenceYieldContinuingSpoilTauntingCreationist Book:Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history
“Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense.” EvolutionTestsClaimsNonsenseDogmaSecularPredictionsIndicationCharadesCreationist Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way.” WayYearsStillsScienceProcessNatureHappenedEventsCreationEvolutionYears AgoMethodBillionsCreationistNothing Makes Sense Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky
“The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist.” BookReligionPowerfulAtheismEvolutionEvidenceArticlesLecturesCreationist Book:Why Evolution Is True Source: Why Evolution Is True
“In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an observation], and contrary to what is widely assumed by evolutionary biologists today, it has always been the anti-evolutionists [i.e creationist], not the evolutionists, in the scientific community who have struck rigidly to the facts and adhered to a more strictly empirical approach... It was Darwin the evolutionist who was retreating from the facts.” RealFactsTodayCommunityEvolutionPureApproachLogicContraryDoctrineObservationRetreatContinuityAdvocacyBiologistEmpiricismCreationist Author:Michael Denton
“I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the help of an army of consultants in special fields.” IfsHelpingIndividualCommunityDoubtSpecialFieldsEvolutionArgumentArmyRangeConsultantsCreationist Author:David M. Raup
“It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution doctrine rests, and the observational and laboratory evidence that bears on the problem of origins, he/she will conclude that there are substantial reasons for doubting the truth of this doctrine. Moreover, I believe that a scientifically sound creationist view of origins is not only possible, but it is to be preferred over the evolutionary one.” IfsBelieveReasonProblemI BelieveSoundViewsDoubtBearsEvolutionEvidenceConvictionDoctrineAssumptionAdequateLaboratoryBiologistMacroCreationist Author:Dean H. Kenyon