Quotes by Jonathan Clements

About Jonathan Clements:

Jonathan Clements is a British author and scriptwriter. His non-fiction works include biographies of Confucius, Koxinga and Qin Shi Huangdi (the First Emperor of China), as well as monthly opinion columns for Neo magazine. He is also the co-author of encyclopedias of anime and Japanese television dramas.
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In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.

Jonathan Clements

Natural science in England, as Darwin already knew to his cost, was still the purview of Christian scholars. But here was a question that Darwin found compelling: if God had created all the creatures of the world, what possible reason could there be ...

Jonathan Clements

Thomas Wollaston, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, complained that Darwin did no seem to know what a species actually was. The British Quarterly, deliberately sitting up trouble, speculated that a time might come when a monkey could pro...

Jonathan Clements

In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen, Campbell argued that while evolution (or "Development") might be observable in the fossil record, it was ...

Jonathan Clements

In what appears to have been an unplanned quip, Wilberforce asked Huxley if he thought he was descended from an ape on his father's or mother's side. Huxley retorted that he would rather have simian relatives than claim kinship with a man who used hi...

Jonathan Clements

Author Bio

  • NameJonathan Clements
  • DescriptionBritish author and scriptwriter
  • BornJuly 9, 1971
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionScreenwriter