Todd Gitlin Quotes

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

Man did not evolve but was created.

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer ago than six thousand years the world did not exist

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.

I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've always loved His creation. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean any_thing to some people, and I just don't get that! After all, if you just read the Bible plainly, it tells you everything. From Creation, to the Flood, to Jesus. I can't see how you can come to the conclusion, there is no God.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

The bible saw that can get a lot of people killed, so let's try and steer people away from that. I am not an expert on the bible. I am just saying.

When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.

I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

I believe God did create the world. And I think we're finding out more and more and more as to how it actually happened.

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask.

The fact is that woman was taken from a rib.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.