{"quotes":[{"text":"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["america","big-bang","big-bang-theory","church-and-state","creation","creationism","dinosaurs","education","evolution","first-amendment","freedom","freedom-of-religion","intelligent-design","letters","literacy","new-jersey","new-york-times","noah-s-ark","religion","science","scientific-literacy","teachers","teaching"],"id":533,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately complex interweaving of its parts, a means to an end. Surely you wouldn't think this marvel would have come about by itself. The watch must have a maker. Just as the watch has such complex means to an end, so does nature to a much greater extent. Just look at the complexity of the human eye. Thus we must conclude that nature has a maker too.","author":"William Paley","tags":["creationism","design","evolution"],"id":5268,"author_id":"William+Paley"},{"text":"If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["absurdity","action","creation","creationism","eternity","force","genesis","god","imagine","infinite","intelligence","nothing","remember","science","think","universe","yahweh"],"id":8541,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["creationism","fundamentalism","inspirational","inspirational","inspiring","philosophy-of-religion","philosophy-of-science","religious-extremism","religious-violence","science","science-and-religion","science","science-vs-religion","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":11562,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Don't creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with the 'human leg and foot bones,' rather than the other way around, I.E., human skulls with 'ape leg and foot bones?' . . . Come on, creationists, think about it! Did God hide the human skulls, only leaving behind leg and foot bones belonging to human midgets with misshapen feet, and mix such bones only with the skulls of ape-like creatures with larger cranial capacities than living apes? What a 'kidder' the creationists' God must be.","author":"Edward T. Babinski","tags":["atheism","atheist","atheists","christian","christianity","christians","creationism","creationist","creationists","evolution","god","religion","religious"],"id":24178,"author_id":"Edward+T.+Babinski"},{"text":"If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths?","author":"Dara Ó Briain","tags":["creationism","evolution"],"id":33795,"author_id":"Dara+%C3%93+Briain"},{"text":"...I suspect everyone there can reason along the lines I described...It's just that when it comes to evolution, and especially to the related realization that we are all pretty small bits of the universe, it seems as though Ham and his followers just can't handle the truth. They throw aside their common sense and cling to the hope that there's something that makes it okay to *not* think for themselves.'The irony is, in the process they are walking away from our ability to understand who we are, where we came from, and how we fit into a cosmos...If there is something divine in our nature, something that sets humans apart from all creatures, surely our ability to reason is a key part of it. The irony is, in the process they are walking away from our ability to understand who we are, where we came from, and how we fit into a cosmos...If there is something divine in our nature, something that sets humans apart from all creatures, surely our ability to reason is a key part of it.","author":"Bill Nye","tags":["creationism","evolution","science"],"id":36756,"author_id":"Bill+Nye"},{"text":"No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans out of a psychological need to have a sense of eternal security.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["biology","brainy","creationism","creationists","darwin","darwinism","evolution","fundamentalism","god","ignorance","life","mysticism","reasoning","religion","science","science-and-religion","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":37842,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Somehow creationists keep us naturalists in track to some extent. They are the representation of human stupidity at its extreme. And we need some stupidity in the society for true intellect to be adored.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","creationism","darwinism","evolution","inspirational","naturalism","science"],"id":38891,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.","author":"Robert Jastrow","tags":["atheism","big-bang-theory-in-creation","creationism","physics","science","universe"],"id":46056,"author_id":"Robert+Jastrow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":86,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}