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Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.
Marilyn Vos Savant / Columnist
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Literature
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang / Film Director
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There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.
Richard Dawkins / Ethologist
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Educated
People Who Many
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
Ashley Montagu / Anthropologist
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Creationists have often made me doubt evolution, but probably not in the way they think.
Frankie Boyle / Comedian
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For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic.
Henry Ian Cusick / Television Actor
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov / Author
Dream
Religion
All Night
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Night
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If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.
Richard Dawkins / Ethologist
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Evangelical
Islamic
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I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.
Richard Dawkins / Ethologist
Beautiful
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Excuse
Feelings
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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 / Actor
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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 / Ethologist
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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 / Paleontologist
Religion
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Rhetorical
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I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny.
Liz Williams /
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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 / Law Professor
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It's always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It's a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
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Ufo
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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 way.
Frans De Waal / Primatologist
Creationist
Deep Down
Factual
Intelligent
Eagerly
Jump
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I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that's a completely different thing. I've written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.
Dinesh D'souza / Author
Argument
Billions
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Defense
Different
Earth
Evolution
Made
Term
Understood
Written
Years
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God Believe Universe
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Well I think fundamentally, what I think surprises me is the creationist movement, and the notion that somehow you can't believe in God if you believe in evolution. But I don't think there's anything in the Bible which prevents a recognition that evolution is a highly plausible way that we came to be here.
Robert Winston / Professor
Bible
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Notion
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Recognition
God Believe Me
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Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers... we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.
Kyle Hill /
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Fake
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