{"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":"...And specimens like this confirmed there had been some kind of divine rule in the universe because no natural selection process was up to the task of creating something like him. This was some god’s, somewhere’s, handiwork.","author":"Nicole Williams","tags":["creation","evolution","humor","humour","intelligent-design","natural-selection"],"id":7015,"author_id":"Nicole+Williams"},{"text":"All of science is largely formalized common sense.","author":"Nancy Pearcey","tags":["common-sense","design","intelligent-design","intuition","science"],"id":23640,"author_id":"Nancy+Pearcey"},{"text":"What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison...","author":"Jeanne DuPrau","tags":["design","intelligent-design","life","power"],"id":55450,"author_id":"Jeanne+DuPrau"},{"text":"Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.","author":"Raheel Farooq","tags":["argument","artificial-intelligence","intelligence","intelligent-design","logic","reason","reasoning","reasons","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise-words"],"id":65333,"author_id":"Raheel+Farooq"},{"text":"Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.","author":"Michael Denton","tags":["bacteria","biology","factory","id","intelligent-design","irreducible-complexity","living-cells","molecular-machines","science"],"id":72975,"author_id":"Michael+Denton"},{"text":"Creationists have also changed their name ... To intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life—yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammurabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.","author":"Michael Shermer","tags":["code-of-hammurabi","creation-myths","creationists","evolution","first-amendment","god-did-it","goddidit","hammurabi","intelligent-design","irreducible-complexity","jargon","myths","native-american","origin-of-life","pseudoscience","school","science","separation-of-church-and-state","sophistry","superstition","ten-commandments"],"id":95495,"author_id":"Michael+Shermer"},{"text":"It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It was only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.","author":"Allan Rex Sandage","tags":["creationism","intelligent-design","science"],"id":101126,"author_id":"Allan+Rex+Sandage"},{"text":"...Evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity,' one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.","author":"Michael Shermer","tags":["evolution","god","intelligent-design","religion","science"],"id":103201,"author_id":"Michael+Shermer"},{"text":"If god meant for people to talk into cellphones, he would've put our mouths on the side of our heads.","author":"Devon Sampson","tags":["funny","intelligent-design"],"id":104091,"author_id":"Devon+Sampson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":70,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}