Terry Pratchett Quotes

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.

Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because they know that their case for atheism and evolution is less than extremely weak.

I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic.

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.

I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position [creationism], it's their right. What I fear is that this minority may seem to be larger than it truly is. What is strange is that there are still people who believe the world is not a globe.

It is unfortunate for Christianity that it was founded on the book of Genesis. A scientific fact is higher authority today than a religious fable. Science has found so many facts that contradict the stories of Genesis that to accept these stories as divine truth is to make falsehood the word of God.

To claim equal time for creation science in biology classes is about as sensible as to claim equal time for the flat-earth theory in astronomy classes. Or, as someone has pointed out, you might as well claim equal time in sex education classes for the stork theory.

I don’t want to offend anyone of faith, but I think that science has some more compelling explanation than a divine creator

I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.

Pope Francis is not the first religious leader who has endorsed evolution and the Big Bang, but he is certainly one of the most influential.

People who believe in creationism say that by teaching evolution you are indoctrinating them with science, but I just don't agree with that.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.

No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.

America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I'd love to discuss that with him - what a fantastic conversation!

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.