It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.