"Nature made us-nature did it all -not the gods of the religions" Thomas A. Edison "The bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of woman's emancipation" Elizabeth Cady Stanton "Faith.n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge,of things without parrallel". Ambrose Bierce "The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world." Bertrand Russell "Reason should be destroyed by all Christians." Martin Luther "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects fo his creation,whose purposes are modeled after our own-a God, in short, who is but a reflection fo human frality. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism." Albert Einstein "Leave the matter of religion to the family altar,the churchesand the private schools,supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate." Ulysses S. Grant
" I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true;for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe,and this would include my Father,Brother, and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine." Charles Darwin

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EDIT: BTW, this being a discussion forum, we'd really prefer to see your opinions rather than the C&P'd opinions of others. :)

"Thus, a century ago, [it was] Darwinism against Christian orthodoxy. To-day the tables are turned. The modified, but still characteristically Darwinian theory has itself become an orthodoxy, preached by its adherents with religious fervour, and doubted, they feel, only by a few muddlers imperfect in scientific faith."

Grene, Marjorie


"The more one studies palaeontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based on faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which it is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion."

More, Louis T.


"The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory-is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation-both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof"

Matthews, L. Harrison


"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox but harder to eradicate."

Dawkins, Richard


"It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that)."

Dawkins, Richard


"...although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist."

Dawkins, Richard

"Reduced to the initial and still crude form in which it is now emerging in the modern world, the new religious spirit appears, as we have said (cf. I), as the impassioned vision and anticipation of some super-mankind ... To believe and to serve was not enough: we now find that it is becoming not only possible but imperative literally to love evolution."

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre



Evolutionists purport to explain where we came from and how we developed into the complex organisms that we are. Physicists, by and large, do not. So, the study of evolution trespasses on the bailiwick of religion. And it has something else in common with religion. It is almost as hard for scientists to demonstrate evolution to the lay public as it would be for churchmen to prove transubstantiation or the virginity of Mary."

Wills, Christopher


"Before Darwin, we thought that a benevolent God had created us."

Gould, Stephen Jay



"I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy."

Hoyle, Sir Frederick



"In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling."

Erasmus Darwin


"Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory."

Midgley, Mary



"So that's my first theme. That evolution and creationism seem to be showing remarkable parallels. They are increasingly hard to tell apart. And the second theme is that evolution not only conveys no knowledge, but seems somehow to convey anti-knowledge, apparent knowledge which is actually harmful to systematics."

Dr. Colin Patterson, Senior Palaeontologist; British Museaum of Natural History

Still, it's just a bunch of quotes and nothing of afinertouchs opinion. This thread sucks.

ok..i'll give an opinion..

I'm reading the GOD DELUSION by Dawkins right now...it is really amazing

ok..i'll give an opinion..

I'm reading the GOD DELUSION by Dawkins right now...it is really amazing

Tell us what's amazing? I'm a god believer so I'm always interested in others idea of delusion.