Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator.

Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case.

I believe God controls the universe. I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

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.

Man did not evolve but was created.

The burden of proof is on those who don't believe that "Genesis" was right, and there was a creation, and that Creator is still involved.

I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. My $250,000 offer demonstrates that the hypothesis of evolution is nothing more than a religious belief.

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.

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

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that I now believe in god and creationism and intelligent design is because of Professor Richard Dawkins. Because when I look at something as complex and intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I don't think that just could've evolved by chance! Professor Richard Dawkins was put there by god to test us, like fossils. And facts.

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.

You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our view of our own special importance, while liberals insist that scientific and spiritual matters can be kept in separate compartments. On this point, I tend to agree with the fundamentalists, though I come to opposite conclusions about teaching evolution because I am convinced it's true.

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” Sorry, Darwin-huggers, but it’s not “In the beginning, a monkey evolutioned gay marriage.

Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense 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.