Quotes of: Creationists Keyword

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 a...

Edward Babinski

[N]early every creationist debater will mention the second law of thermodynamics and argue that complex systems like the earth and life cannot evolve, because the second law seems to say that everything in nature is running down and losing energy, no...

Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Marilyn vos Savant

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

Walter Lang

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

Ashley Montagu

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

Isaac Asimov

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.

John Rhys-Davies

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

Richard Dawkins

If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.

Schrodingers Caterpillar

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

Richard Dawkins

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake it for the genuine article.

Life

The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution

Time, Unincorporated: Volume 1-Lance Parkin

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

Richard Dawkins

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Stephen Jay Gould

Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe, known as Intelligent Design, and eagerly jump on every tidbit of information that seems to go their w...

Frans de Waal

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

Phillip E. Johnson

All the three monotheist religions (Jewish, Christianity and Islam)claims that their God (Yahweh, God and Allah) created humans in a similar way: this indicates that creationist have not yet established the creator.

Ajay Kansal

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

The God Delusion

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

The God Delusion

In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.

Phillip E. Johnson

Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.

Richard Dawkins