The Grand Canyon could have been formed in about five minutes. Young creationist, cited Why Do People Laugh at Creationists?
It may be true that scientism and evolutionism (not science and evolution) are among the causes of atheism and materialism. It is at least equally true that biblical literalism, from its earlier flat-earth and geocentric forms to its recent young-earth and flood-geology forms, is one of the major causes of atheism and materialism. Many scientists and intellectuals have simply taken the literalists at their word and rejected biblical materials as being superseded or contradicted by modern science. Without having in hand a clear and persuasive alternative, they have concluded that it is nobler to be damned by the literalists than to dismiss the best testimony of research and reason. Intellectual honesty and integrity demand it. Conrad Hyers, The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science
I tossed into the fire all my dreams and hopes for science. I am a young-age Creationist because that is my understanding of the scripture. As I shared with my professors years ago when I was in college if all the evidence in the universe turns against Creationism I would be the first to admit it but I would still be a Creationist because that is what the word of God seems to indicate. Here I must stand. Kurt Wise, Harvard geologist
In all their polemics, the anti-creationists invariably avoid discussing the actual scientific evidence for macro-evolution. If there were any such evidence, they could easily settle the whole conflict, merely by presenting the evidence! Instead they seem compelled to resort to bombast ridicule, defamation, intimidation, and distortion. Surely that great body of working scientists, largely uninvolved so far in the creation/evolution conflict will soon begin to see that a two-model approach to all scientific study is salutary and will persuade their more emotional brethren to open their minds to potential truth wherever it might be found. Henry Morris, founder Institute for Creative Research
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence; why there is something instead of nothing. Allan Sandage, Sizing up the Cosmos: An Astronomer’s Quest, 1991
Colossal beauty, awe-inspiring intricacy, are the wonders of our universe a cosmic accident, or the result of intelligent design? For centuries Religion and Science were bitter foes. Now Science actively searches for our Creator. Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman: Is There a Creator? Science 2010
Every culture claims a God. An all-powerful entity that created the world and directs our faith. But why do we share this belief in a cosmic Creator? Did we dream it up to serve a need in our psyche or culture? Is God really out there? Up there? This is a journey into the science of God. ibid.
Some physicists believe this calibration of forces is evidence of God. ibid.
One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the sanest cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single overarching design to the universe? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God? ibid.
They have never found a force carrier for gravity. The elusive gravitons. ibid.
What if there is no math that unifies the universe? ibid.
Dr Persinger believes the efforts of our brain’s right temporal lobe to relieve the anxiety of death is what we sense when we think we sense the designer. ibid.
God may simply be in our minds. ibid.
Maybe we are The Sims and our Creator is sitting at the controls of a super-computer. ibid.
In the past century physicists have discovered that matter really is made of tiny little pixels, fundamental indivisible particles billions of times smaller than an atom. ibid.
Our world is pixellated and only assumes definite form when observed. The very same way our computer simulations behave. ibid.
Our world bears all the hallmarks of one that is simulated ... Who would be more likely to simulate humans than humans from the future – our descendants. ibid.
Every religion has a creation story. So what do those stories tell us about who we are and where we came from? Morgan Freeman, The Story of God s1e4: Creation, National Geographic 2016
Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place … the inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use. William Paley, Natural Theology, 1802
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. Isaac Newton, General Scholium in Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687
Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowells) and just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore leggs or two wings or two arms on the sholders & two leggs on the hipps one on either side & no more? Whence arises this uniformity in all their outward shapes but from the counsel & contrivance of an Author? Whence is it that the eyes of all sorts of living creatures are transparent to the very bottom & the only transparent members in the body, having on the outside an hard transparent skin, & within transparent juyces with a crystalline Lens in the middle & a pupil before the Lens all of them so truly shaped & fitted for vision, that no Artist can mend them? Did blind chance know that there was light & what was its refraction & fit the eys of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These & such like considerations always have & ever will prevail with man kind to believe that there is a being who made all things & has all things in his power & who is therfore to be feared. Isaac Newton, manuscript ‘A Short Schem of the True Religion’
As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency – or, rather, Agency – must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in and so providentially crafted the cosmos for our benefit? George Greenstein, The Symbiotic Universe: Life and Mind in the Cosmos
I personally think maybe intervention into our evolution ... The jump in evolution, or the jump in the creation, just cries out that someone intervened in our evolution ... When you read the Old Testament that God said, Let us make man in our image. Immediately you have a problem as most Bible students know with who is us and our? Later on it says that Man has become as one of us. Talking with a Rabbi many years ago, he made the point that ... it was not saying that God was creating Man at that point, it was actually saying, Come, let us make Man in our image, according to our likeness, implying that Man was already here. Jordan Maxwell, recorded interview
What’s not being said first of all is that God is creating a new creature called man. No. What is being said is that God, again being Elohim in the plural, the gods are saying, Come let us make man in our image after our likeness. What’s being said is that someone has come here. Jordan Maxwell, Forbidden Knowledge
So God created the Earth and then it became a waste and a desolation. It wasn’t created that way. ibid.
In Jeremiah 4:23 we are told that Jeremiah is given a vision by God of the world that was before man was created. ibid.
In six days God created the heavens and the earth. On the seventh day Stanley Kubrick sent everything back for modifications. Author Unknown
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles. J B S Haldane, lecture 7th April 1951
The creationists have this creator who is evil, who is small-minded, who is malevolent, and who is not very bright and can’t even get his science right. Creationists have made their creator in their own image, in my view. Professor Ian Plimer, The Skeptic 13:2
Creationism is wrong; totally, utterly, and absolutely wrong. I would go further. There are degrees of being wrong. The creationists are at the bottom of the scale. They pull every trick in the book to justify their position. Indeed, at times they verge right over into the downright dishonest. Scientific Creationism is not just wrong, it is ludicrously implausible. It is a grotesque parody of human thought, and a downright misuse of human intelligence. In short, to the believer, it is an insult to God. Michael Ruse, Darwinism Defended
I have encountered a few Creationists and because they were usually nice intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad, or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider Creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created that whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading mankind? Arthur C Clarke
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult Creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. Arthur C Clarke
Theory 1) The Grand Canyon was made by Noah’s flood. Creationism: Conspiracy Road Trip, BBC 2012
Creationists are certain that the story of Noah’s Ark is a matter of historical fact ... Theory 2) Noah squeezed every living creature onto his Ark. ibid.
This whole trip is turning into a fools’ errand. ibid.