George W. Bush Quotes

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

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.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

I'm very interested in Darwinism and how that affects us on a day-to-day level. But I also have a deep interest in theology and the spiritual.

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I'd love to discuss that with him - what a fantastic conversation!

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone.

I had no intention to write atheistically, but I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all. Like the majority of men who are born to a given belief, they demand the most rigorous proof of any adverse belief, but assume that their own needs none.

Theology made no provision for evolution.

If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism .

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it conflicts, in some people's minds, with their sense of how we all came to be. But you know, if you are a believer in God, it's hard to imagine that God would somehow put this incontrovertible evidence in front of us about our relationship to other living organisms and expect us to disbelieve it. I mean, that doesn't make sense at all.