Evolution Quotes

Adam Sedgwick

The reason why the theory of evolution was created:

'From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.'

Huston Smith

‘One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin’s own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in saying that “more cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution … than to anything else.”

H.G. Wells

‘If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement … collapsed like a house of cards.

Madalyn Murray O’Hair

“The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.”

Articles About Evolution Quotes

  • Magazine Department Article
    U.S. Doomed if Darwin Denied by a President
    July 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine

    A University of Michigan professor predicts that America will be headed to ruin if it elects a creationist president.

  • Magazine Article
    Who Said This About Evolution?
    Dec. 1, 2000, pp. 41–42

    A quote by Adam Sedgwick about the reason why the theory of evolution was created.

  • Magazine Article
    Fascinating Quotes
    Sept. 1, 2000, pp. 23–24

    'Thus evolution, for example, may prove as powerful a principle to co-ordinate men's beliefs and hopes as God was in the past.'

  • The Religion of Scientism
    June 9, 2000

    A quote from by Shallis, M about evolutionists' opinions of purpose.

  • Magazine Article
    H.G. Wells, evolution and the Gospel
    June 1, 2000, pp. 45–46

    A quote by Herbert George Wells concerning evolution and the gospel.

  • Magazine Article
    Education for loss
    June 1, 2000, pp. 53–54

    A quote by Huston Smith concerning the loss of religious faith due to the teaching of evolution.

  • Magazine Article
    Call for honesty on origins
    June 1, 2000, pp. 45–46

    A quote by Hubert P. Yockey dealing with honesty about origins.

  • H.G. Wells, Evolution and the Gospel
    March 10, 2000

    A Quote from H. G. Wells

  • Magazine Article
    Media Bias on Origins
    March 1, 2000, pp. 21–22

    “Anyone who questions man’s reasoning, particularly on the origin of the physical world, faces an arrogance almost beyond comprehension.”

  • Magazine Article
    Telling It Straight
    Dec. 1, 1999, pp. 38–39

    I myself have little doubt that in England it was [uniformitarian, long-ages] geology and the theory of evolution that changed us from a Christian to a pagan nation.

  • Magazine Article
    The Pinnacle of Evolutionary Wisdom?
    Dec. 1, 1999, pp. 42–43

    ‘The current state of knowledge can be summarised thus: In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.

  • Magazine Article
    Death in the Garden
    June 1, 1999, pp. 15–16

    Quote from Martin Brookes

  • Primeval soup—Failed Paradigm
    Feb. 24, 1999

    A Quote from Hubert P. Yockey

  • Magazine Article
    Ape-Man Olympics
    Dec. 1, 1998, pp. 15–16

    “…finding the oldest member of the Hominidae—the family of Man—is like winning gold at the Olympics.”

  • Quotable Quotes
    Nov. 24, 1998

    A collection of Notable Quotes

  • Magazine Article
    How Long Will We Keep Our Heads in the Sand?
    Sept. 1, 1998, pp. 47–48
  • Spontaneous Generation and Perpetual Motion Machines
    Aug. 11, 1998

    The origin of life by chance in a primeval soup is impossible in probability in the same way that a perpetual machine is in probability.

  • Classrooms: Temples of Humanism?
    June 26, 1998

    I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith.

  • Science and Bias
    June 18, 1998

    The fact is that scientists are not really as objective and dispassionate in their work as they would like you to think.

  • Magazine Article
    Evolution: No Morality
    June 1, 1998, pp. 44–45

    ‘All I can say is, That’s just tough. We have to face up to the truth.’

  • Magazine Article
    Amazing Admission
    June 1, 1998, pp. 24–25

    A revealing comment by Richard Lewontin

  • Magazine Article
    How Prejudice Affects Science
    June 1, 1998, pp. 41–42

    A quote by Sir Fred Hoyle

  • Magazine Article
    Cosmology
    March 1, 1998, pp. 26–27

    ‘… much of contemporary cosmology deals with things like inflation and the big bang that have not been directly observed, and probably never will be.’

  • Magazine Article
    Missing the Point
    March 1, 1998, pp. 19–20

    Unless people are looking for evidence that nothing is millions of years old, they will overlook the obvious under their noses.

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