Creation Quotes

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but does not know what to create. Lord of all things, he is not lord of himself.

Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think creation’s.

These two chapters (Genesis 1 and 2), instead of containing, as has been believed, one continuous account of the creation, written by Moses, contain two different and contradictory stories of a creation, made by two different persons, and written in two different styles of expression.

In six days the Lord created the heavens and the earth and all the wonders therein. There are some of us who feel that He might have taken just a little more time.

That there are two stories is as visible to the eye, when attended to, as that there are two chapters, and that they have been written by different persons, nobody knows by whom. If this then is the strange condition the beginning of the Bible is in, it leads to a just suspicion, that the […]

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Theologically, an evolutionary universe can be understood as a creation which is allowed by its Creator to make itself. God is neither the Cosmic Tyrant, causing every event by direct fiat alone, nor the Indifferent Spectator, just watching it all happen. The God who is both loving and faithful has given to creation the twin […]

‘Creation science’ has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage – […]

In the Beginning, the Big Bang emitted Chaos; and the Chaos was without form, and void, for it was homogeneous and isotropic. And the Singularity moved upon the face of the Chaos and emitted light; and the Universe was no longer homogeneous, for the light was divided from the darkness. And there came forth firmaments […]

There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends, for its rightness upon some little point, which he is never told. It is not only so of cooking: it is so of splicing a rope; of painting a surface of wood; of mixing mortar; of almost anything you like […]