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 […]
Creation Quotes
Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian – and at once the world becomes explicable.
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Ockham’s Principle à “Plurality should not be assumed without necessity” à favors the hypothesis of a single Creator. The “infinite regress” objection à “Who created the Creator?” à may be taken care of (translation: swept under the carpet) by a useful recent invention. Welcome to the Singularity.
Imagine hanging the stones of a man, where they are forever getting themselves knocked, pinched, and bruised. Any decent mechanic would have put them in the exact center of the body, protected by an envelope twice as thick as a Presbyterian’s skull. Moreover, consider certain parts of the female – always too large or too […]
God: Dey displeases me. Dey displeases me greatly. Look at dem dere. Squirmin’ an’ fightin’ an’ bearin’ false witness. Why did I ever make ’em? – Angel Gabriel: Should I git mo’ thunde’bolts? – God: (looking down at Earth) No. Dey don’ do de trick… It’s gotta be somethin’ else. – Angel Gabriel: How would […]
There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvellous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator in his own account.
It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all of the contradictions of the world.
The creation is as God’s family; for its sustenance is from Him: therefore the most beloved unto God is the person who doeth good to God’s family.
There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends, for its rightness upon some little point, which he is never told. It is not only so of cooking: it is so of splicing a rope; of painting a surface of wood; of mixing mortar; of almost anything you like […]
