Terry Eagleton Quotes

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

I don’t want to offend anyone of faith, but I think that science has some more compelling explanation than a divine creator

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

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

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.

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.

It is unconstitutional to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom.

We have politicians running for office—for school boards—in parts of the country who are denying the fundamental principle of biology. They are trying to equate the fact that Evolution is a theory with the idea that Evolution might not be true…. The teaching of Evolution should not be a political issue…. Evolution was discovered, not invented.

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.

Creationists have often made me doubt evolution, but probably not in the way they think.

Theology made no provision for evolution.

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

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

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

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.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because they know that their case for atheism and evolution is less than extremely weak.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

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

I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.