Quotes About Evolution

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.

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

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.

Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.