Creation Stories Quotes

• There's no way that you can stop nature.

  Luis Negron

  Way, Blah

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

  Attila the Stockbroker

  Bible, Bread Of Life, Creator God

  Song "The Bible According to Rupert Murdoch", 1992.

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• In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Bible, Christ Consciousness, Bread Of Life

  N. Scott Momaday, Al Momaday (1969). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

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• When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.

  Wayne Muller

  Strong, Stars, War

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• Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.

  Bill Nye

  Meaningful, Powerful, Ideas

  "The best popular science books of 2014: Biological sciences" by GrrlScientist, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2014.

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• Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

  Karen Armstrong

  Reading, Purpose, Stories

  Karen Armstrong (2004). “A Short History Of Myth”, p.137, Canongate Books

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• We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Differences, People

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• My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, Stories, Creation

  Source: inters.org

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• Every character I've had in my act - none of them have a similar creation story. I actually thought up Peanut and designed him in my head. I described him to a woman that was making soft puppets and she drew up some sketches. And the character came to be just because he popped into my head.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Stories, Puppets

  "A Q&A with ventriloquist Jeff Dunham". Interview with Jill Diver, www.gloucestertimes.com. October 20, 2010.

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• The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of the cosmos. If you want a good mythical story it would be the life of Socrates.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Garbage, Would Be, Cosmos

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For the first time in human history, we can agree on the basic story of the galaxies, the stars, the planets, minerals, life forms, and human cultures. This story does not diminish the spiritual traditions of the classical or tribal periods of human history. Rather, the story provides the proper setting for the teachings of all traditions, showing the true magnitude of their central truths.

  Brian Swimme

  Spiritual, Stars, Teaching

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• There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Two, Stories, Way

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• Most nations have some type of creation story.

  Fred Van Lente

  Stories, Creation, Type

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• The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.

  Jean Klein

  Children, Reality, Thinking

  Jean Klein (2006). “I Am”, p.13, New Harbinger Publications

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• Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an orange that releases its fragrance to our touch, the unfathomable depths of the eyes of our lover. No creation story, no religious system can fully describe or explain this richness and depth. Mystery is so every-present that no one can know for certain what will happen one hour from now. “ It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

  Jack Kornfield

  Religious, Believe, Eye

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• It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.

  Jeanette Winterson

  New Beginnings, Dna, Rest Of Life

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