U wanna give quotes ?
Okie, here goes
http://freethought.freeservers.com/reason/quotes.html
BTW, the quotes u gave me are mostly of people who DO NOT believe
in EVOLUTION, not even MICRO evolution. So I guess they have a
stand different from yours.
Albert Einstein
Einstein often used the word "God" as a metaphor for nature. An
often repeated Einstein quote is "God does not play dice with the
universe." However, Einstein did not believe in a conscious god.
Here is Einstein in his own words:
"I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or
the fear of death or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there
is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a
liar."
"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this
but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be
called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the
structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
"The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events
the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the
side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature.
For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will
exists as an independent cause of natural events. To be sure, the
doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could
never be refuted [italics his], in the real sense, by science, for
this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which
scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am
convinced that such behavior on the part of representatives of
religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine
which is to maintain itself not in clear light but only in the
dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with
incalculable harm to human progress. In their struggle for the
ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up
the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of
fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands
of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of
those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True,
and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more
difficult but an incomparably more worthy task..."
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Robert Ingersoll
"A believer is a bird in a cage. A freethinker is an eagle parting
the clouds with tireless wing."
"The star that shines above the dawn, the herald of the day, is
Science, not superstition; Reason, not religion."
"When I became convinced that the Universe is natural - that all
the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my
soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, of the
joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the
dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and
manacles became dust."
"Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have
at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and
justice."
"My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel,
infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd."
"This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the
purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of
themselves."
"Hands that help are far better than lips that pray."
"The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity
of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and
experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation,
and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and
ignorance called 'faith'."
"If a man would follow today, the teachings of the Old Testament,
he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly, the teachings
of the new, he would be insane."
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Bertrand Russell
"What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which
he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they
were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did
not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds
them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance of evidence
in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his
conclusions may seem."
"Religion prevents our children from having a rational education;
religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war;
religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific
cooperation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and
punishment. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a
golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the
dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
"The Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and
still is, the principal enemy of moral progress in the world"
"Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do."
"If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it
by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the
argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith,
you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore
resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or
distorting the minds of the young in what is called
'education'."
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our
intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as
our guidelines."
"The splendour of human life, I feel sure, is greater to those who
are not dazzled by the divine radiance."
"We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which
there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of
"faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that
the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to
substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for
evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups,
substitute different emotions."
"There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man
who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable
myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are
myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting.
But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware,
however dimly, that his opinions are not real, he becomes furious
when they are disputed."
"I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they
are untrue."
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Thomas Jefferson
"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every
fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a
god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage
of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. Do not be frightened from
this inquiry by any fear of its consequences.... If it end in a
belief that there is no god, you will find incitements to virtue in
the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the
love of others it will procure for you."
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the
world, and do not find in our particular superstition
[Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded
on fables and mythology."
"The Christian god is a three headed monster, cruel, vengeful and
capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed
beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who
say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and
hypocrites."
"And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by
the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be
classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the brain
of Jupiter."
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on
man."
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