John Quincy Adams Quotes

The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.

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.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

Who designed this world we live in?

For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally.

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low.

What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?

The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.

I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.

As we are - the world is.

Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

God made the world for the delight of human beings.

God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.