Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

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.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

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.

Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.

But I firmly believe that evolution be taught in the schools has the best witness of what modern science has taught us. To read the Bible literalistically about such issues disinvites us from using the best of recent scholarships

Creationists make it sound as though a “theory” is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

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.

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

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Creationism means simply a belief in creation

It is unconstitutional to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom.

I was defeated by an elite group in Washington that have an agenda, the National Academy of Sciences and other science groups. They have an agenda to get evolution presented as hard, dogmatic fact. It is pure propaganda.

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

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.

Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.

You ever notice that everyone who believes in creationism looks really un-evolved?

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

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

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 have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.