Dinesh D'Souza

I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that's a completely different thing. I've written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.

Indian Author

Phillip E. Johnson

In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.

American Educator

Liz Williams

I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny.

British Author

John Rhys-Davies

I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.

Welsh Actor

Richard Dawkins

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

English Scientist

Isaac Asimov

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

American Scientist

Henry Ian Cusick

For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic.

Peruvian Actor

Frankie Boyle

Creationists have often made me doubt evolution, but probably not in the way they think.

Scottish Comedian

Ashley Montagu

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Marilyn vos Savant

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

American Writer

The term is often used within religious discussions about the origins of the universe and life.

Religious Belief

Emphasizes the belief in a supernatural being who created everything, challenging scientific explanations.

Divine Creation

Not all creationists reject science; some interpret creationism to accommodate scientific findings.

Common Misunderstandings

Creationist as an adjective often links to literal interpretations of the Bible's creation story.

Biblical Reference

Creationist theories are sometimes debated in educational settings, especially in biology classes.

Education and Debate

The term can evoke strong emotions, either of support or opposition, due to personal beliefs.

Emotional Charge

 This single slide completely dismantles the intelligent design arguments. There's nothing more to it than that. You can say a miracle occurs, it's just that it doesn't explain anything or offer anything. There's nothing to test. It's the end of the conversation for intelligent design creationists.

Why people believe weird...

 supports the core proposition that the cosmos is a specially designed whole with life and mankind as its fundamental goal and purpose, a whole in which all facets of reality have their meaning and explanation in this central fact." Well, that's Michael Denton. He's a creationist.

Dan Dennett: Responding...

 And my wife thought this was very offensive, so she sat in every seat in our apartment, and I had to spend much of the year standing until I bought my own seat and carried it around. So, you know, I met with creationists. I went to the creationists' museum.

My year of living...

 but they get quite upset when people like me dare to mention that we happen to be atheists as well as evolutionists. They see us as rocking the boat, and you can understand why. Creationists, lacking any coherent scientific argument for their case,

Militant atheism PIPE...

 What we see in all these cases bears no resemblance to the reality that we conclude is responsible -- only a long chain of theoretical reasoning and interpretation connects them. "Ah!" say creationists. "So you admit it's all interpretation.

David Deutsch: A new way...

 creationists give us 6,000 but Hollywood goes to the chase and in this movie we see what we think is out there flying saucers and aliens every world has an alien and every alien world has the flying saucer and they move about with

Earth's mass extinction...

 I mean, even the creationists give us 6,000, but Hollywood goes to the chase. And in this movie, we see what we think is out flying saucers and aliens. Every world has an alien, and every alien world has a flying saucer,

Earth's mass extinctions...

 and he's taken on this topic in a big way recently published a book on evolution and he actually debated at the director of a creationist Museum where the entire premise is that there was no

Listening to the Rocks PIPE...

 as a creationist, I decided to go to university to study evolution so that I could destroy it. I failed. I failed so spectacularly that I'm now an evolutionary biologist.

The fascinating (and...

 Exactly. Exactly. And it is a strange inversion. A creationist pamphlet has this wonderful page in "Test Do you know of any building that didn’t have a builder? Yes/No.