{"quotes":[{"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":"At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["applause","blessed","brave","cathedrals","church","churches","civilize","clergyman","creeds","dead","discoveries","elevate","enlighten","errors","fact","facts","failed","falsehoods","generals","genesis","geology","great","harmony","holy-writ","honest","hypocrites","ignorant","lectures","living","mankind","minister","miracles","miraculous","mistakes","money","nature","past","patriot","peers","perfert","philanthropist","philosopher","poet","priest","progress","pursuit","real","recognition","reputation","sacred","school","science","scientific","stlers","superstition","teacher","think","truth","university","use","vapid","waste","weak","wealth"],"id":14144,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"It is high time that we grew up and left the Garden. We are indeed Eden’s children, yet it is time to place Genesis alongside the geocentric myth in the basket of stories that once, in a world of intellectual naivete, made helpful sense. As we walk through the gates, aware of the dazzling richness of the genuine biological world, there might even be a smile on the Creator’s face — that at long last His creatures have learned enough to understand His world as it truly is.","author":"Kenneth R. Miller","tags":["evolution","genesis","religion","science"],"id":21158,"author_id":"Kenneth+R.+Miller"},{"text":"In the beginnings, God Mother separates the earth from the heavens.","author":"Stefan Emunds","tags":["bible","creation","genesis","old-testament","prophecy","sacred-geometry","spirituality"],"id":29199,"author_id":"Stefan+Emunds"},{"text":"Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to last much longer. There's a plenty of signs. He is getting belittled to a germ—a little bit of a speck that you can't see without a microscope powerful enough to raise a gnat to the size of a church.('The Refuge of the Derelicts' collected in Mark Twain and John Sutton Tuckey, The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings (1980), 340-41. - 1980).","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["adam","adam-and-eve","bible","charles-darwin","church","darwin","ernst-haeckel","evolution","genesis","germ","haeckel","herbert-spencer","huxley","religion","science","science-and-religion","spencer","t-h-huxley","thomas-henry-huxley","thomas-huxley"],"id":34264,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"If you destroy the foundations of anything, the structure will collapse. If you want to destroy any building, you are guaranteed early success if you destroy the foundations.","author":"Ken Ham","tags":["creation","destruction","foundations","genesis"],"id":50400,"author_id":"Ken+Ham"},{"text":"I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians’ idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.","author":"Kristen Reed","tags":["abraham","abram","bible","christian","christianity","egypt","genesis","god","gods","pharaoh","sarah","sarai"],"id":69203,"author_id":"Kristen+Reed"},{"text":"The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.","author":"John H. Walton","tags":["christian","creation","genesis","purpose"],"id":69453,"author_id":"John+H.+Walton"},{"text":"God is constantly talking to us but we can't hear him because we pay too much attention to the noise from the world. Genesis 12:22.","author":"Felix Wantang","tags":["abraham-lincoln","attention","genesis","god","talk","the-world"],"id":71295,"author_id":"Felix+Wantang"},{"text":"The greatest things that have ever happened in this world, had their genesis in the wake of special relationships of rare destiny.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["destiny","genesis","greatness","rarity","relationships","special"],"id":76913,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":65,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}