53,234. There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all ... It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe ... The impression of design is overwhelming. Paul Davies, The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in Nature’s Creative Ability to Order the Universe
53,876. The word God – I’m not sure I really know what it means ... I’ve never seen much in the idea that the universe was designed. (God & Intelligent Design) 50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God, Professor Alan Guth
53,904. I don’t believe the universe was designed by an intelligence. (God & Intelligent Design) ibid. Leonard Susskind
53,906. That’s just the intelligence of its own mechanism. (God & Intelligent Design) ibid. Theodore W Hansch
53,918. God has been designed to be beyond the verification process of Science. (God & Intelligent Design) ibid. Professor Daniel C Dennett
53,933. I’ve never had any feeling for the intelligent designer approach. (God & Intelligent Design) Another 50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God, Roy J Glauber
59,120. The impression of design must have been overwhelming. (Atheism & Intelligent Design) Jonathan Miller, The Atheism Tapes, Steven Weinberg
59,123. Newton was impressed with the regularity of Nature ... The regularity by definitions invokes and invites a regulator. (Atheism & Intelligent Design) ibid. Jonathan Miller
59,124. We are permanently in the tragic position of not being able to understand at the deepest possible level the way things are as they are ... Saying a designer doesn’t settle it. A designer doesn’t help. (Atheism & Intelligent Design) ibid. Steven Weinberg
59,139. When you say, Oh it was designed by God, you’ve explained absolutely nothing because you’re left with the problem of explaining where the designer came from. So it’s a non-explanation. (Atheism & Intelligent Design) ibid.
67,294. This scientific approach of Paley to religion and creation and such went over very big. He took Nature apart like you would a watch, looking for God’s purpose in the design. (Civilisation & Intelligent Design) James Burke: Connections s2e12: Hot Pickle, BBC 1994
95,902. The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is – marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an enchanted state. No, I am too firm in my consciousness of the marvelous to be ever fascinated by the mere supernatural which (take it any way you like) is but a manufactured article, the fabrication of minds insensitive to the intimate delicacies or our relation to the dead and the living, in their countless multitudes; a desecration of our tenderest memories; an outrage on our dignity. Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line
96,456. ‘That’s one of the proofs that there isn’t an individual God,’ said Owen. ‘If we were to believe that the universe and everything that lives was deliberately designed and created by God, then we must also believe that He made the disease germs you are speaking of for the purpose of torturing His other creatures.’ Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
121,553. The scientific theory of evolution explains how lifeforms develop and diversify over generations … It explains how new varieties of lifeform emerge from earlier lifeforms. (Evolution & Intelligent Design) Irreducible Complexity Cut Down to Size, Youtube 31m 2012
121,554. In science, theories don’t get promoted to facts, facts are explained by theories. (Evolution & Intelligent Design & Theory) ibid.
121,555. Mutations are simply changes in genetic variation within a population. (Evolution & Intelligent Design & Change) ibid.
121,556. Dramatic change can be achieved one small step at a time. (Evolution & Intelligent Design & Change) ibid.
121,557. Evolution doesn’t work by combining different species at random. (Evolution & Intelligent Design) ibid.
121,558. We can remove parts from an ‘irreducibly complex’ system and still be left with functional parts – parts with secondary functions that benefit the organism in other ways. (Evolution & Intelligent Design) ibid.
121,559. Intelligent Design has been quickly exposed for what it is – creationism. (Evolution & Intelligent Design) ibid.
74,467. Religious believers can point to the existence of God genes as one more sign of the creator’s ingenuity – a clever way to help humans acknowledge and embrace a divine presence. (Gene & Intelligent Design) Gene Hamer
74,468. In 2004 geneticist Dean Hamer claimed to have identified what he has called the God gene also known as Vmat2. (Genetics & Intelligent Design) Professor Robert Winston, The Story of God, BBC 2005
74,470. The idea of a God gene goes against all my personal theological convictions. You can’t cut faith down to the lowest common denominator of genetic survival. It shows the poverty of deductionist thinking. (Genetics & Intelligent Design) John Polkinghorne, Daily Telegraph