We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence
VoltaireTags: humanism intelligent-design
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton BerleTags: evolution motherhood intelligent-design
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
Douglas AdamsTags: atheism intelligent-design puddle
If god meant for people to talk into cellphones, he would've put our mouths on the side of our heads.
Devon SampsonTags: funny intelligent-design
The scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.
Sheri S. TepperTags: willful-ignorance religion intelligent-design
...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.
Michael ShermerTags: science god religion evolution intelligent-design
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...
This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.
Tags: science god religion intelligent-design theism id religion-and-science science-and-religion
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Isaac NewtonTags: science religion intelligent-design id religion-and-science science-and-religion
You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet that is still cooling and which has fissures and faults in its crust; this much is accepted even by those who think that the globe is only six thousand years old, as well as by those who believe that the earth was "designed" to be this way. Even in such a case, it is to be expected that earthquakes will occur and that, if they occur under the seabed, tidal waves will occur also. Yet two sorts of error are still absolutely commonplace. The first of these is the idiotic belief that seismic events are somehow "timed" to express the will of God. Thus, reasoning back from the effect, people will seriously attempt to guess what sin or which profanity led to the verdict of the tectonic plates. The second error, common even among humanists, is to borrow the same fallacy for satirical purposes and to employ it to disprove a benign deity.
Christopher HitchensTags: religion atheism humanism earth 2004 intelligent-design theodicy earthquakes natural-disasters 2004-earthquake-and-tsunami 2005 plate-tectonics tsunamis young-earth-creationism
There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.
Christopher HitchensTags: god religion atheism intelligent-design
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