“Of course, it was impossible to teach biology without teaching evolution. But to the fundamentalists, evolution symbolized all that was repugnant. It was a threat to religious belief, they thought. …
Publications
John Landis
“I’m an atheist. I do not believe in the devil; in fact, I’m suspect of people who do.” …
Lawrence Wright
“The very same qualities that make [religion] so powerful — because it can place a transformative lens over the ways we perceive reality and can make our lives more tolerable …
James Baldwin
“If the concept of God has any validity or use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is …
Peter O’Toole
“I am a retired Christian.” …
Herman Melville
“Backward and forward, eternity is the same; already we have been the nothing we dread to be.” “Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.” …
Paul D. Boyer
“My views have changed from a belief that my prayers were heard to clear atheism. … Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.” “None …
Jean-Baptiste LaMarck
“All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.” …
Thorstein Veblen
“Indeed, it is becoming somewhat of a commonplace with observers of criminal life in European communities that the criminal and dissolute classes are, if anything, rather more devout, and more …
