"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." - Socrates (c. 469BC-399 BCE)
"...in regard to the Olympic gods, speaking to a purely philosophical audience, I would say that I am an Agnostic. But speaking popularly, I think that all of us would say in regard to those gods that we were Atheists. In regard to the Christian God, I should, I think, take exactly the same line..." - Bertrand Russell
"In all of these efforts, the creationists make abundant use of a simple tactic: They lie. They lie continually, they lie prodigiously, and they lie because they must. The idea that the Bible could serve to explain nature collapsed in the 1800s, under an overwhelming mass of scientific information that discredited any naive, literal reading of Genesis, but the creationists have to deny that this ever happened. They also must deny all that science has learned since then about the history of Earth and Earth's organisms -- and the only way to do this is to tell lies. They tell lies about nature, lies about science and lies about their own doctrines and aims, and they change the lies, from time to time, to fit prevailing circumstances."
- William J. Bennetta
"Actually, if you think about it a bit, if there was any solid proof that this Jesus existed then every holy roller from Billy Graham to the creationists would be trumpeting this evidence every chance they got." - joseph707, talk.origins, 18 April 2002
"It is the last gasp of a discredited and disproven position to deny that the tools of evidence and reason have a role to play in shedding light upon the past." - Chris Ho-Stuart, TalkOrigins Feedback, March 2002.
"Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are sure to be defeated in every battle." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Chapter 3.
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner who confesses his unworthiness." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"The Bible is not the Word of God. If God exists, I believe he would take less offense at my not believing in his existence than to believe that he/she performed the atrocities ascribed to him by the authors of the Bible." - Kyle Kelly
"Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'"
- James Randi, "
Nostradamus: The Prophet for All Seasons," The Skeptical Inquirer, Fall 1982, p. 31.
"We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant" - Karl Popper, The open Society and its enemies.
"It is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the Kosmos is so
much evidence against the Omnipotence of the Designer. ... The evidences ... of
Natural Theology distinctly imply that the author of the Kosmos worked under
limitations..." - John Stuart Mill, "Theism", Part II
"Power doesn’t come from a badge or a gun. Power comes outa lying and lying big and getting the whole damn world to play along with you, Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain’t true, you got ‘em trapped. You can turn reality on its head and they’ll cheer you on." - Senator Roark, in Sin City by Frank Miller (quoted here)
Quotes From Christians
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture,"
- Pastor Ray Mummert, 2005
"The peril of negative arguments is that they may rest on
our lack of knowledge, rather than on positive results." - Michael J. Behe
"When we say also that the Word, which is the first birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that he, Jesus Christ, our teacher, was crucified, died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter." - First Apology, Chapter xxi, Justin Martyr (c. 100-165 CE)
"Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens,
and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of
the stars and even their sizes and distances,... and this knowledge
he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus
offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk
nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based
in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an
embarrassing situation, lest the unbeliever see only ignorance in
the Christian and laugh to scorn."
- St. Augustine, "De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim"
(The Literal Meaning of Genesis)
"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic or else he would be the Devil of Hell. Either this was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse." - C. S. Lewis
"By definition, no apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record. Of primary importance is the fact that evidence is always subject to interpretation by fallible people who do not possess all information." - From the AnswersInGenesis Statement of Faith, IV.F
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