From a friend:

The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason? –Francis S. Collins, Director National Human Genome Research Institute, writing in Faith and the Human Genome

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. –Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts. –Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003)

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. –Ashley Montague Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Litt.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. –Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Renaissance author, courtier, and father of deductive reasoning

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. –Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Einstein, Out of My Later Years, chapter 8, part 1, p. 26 (1950, rev. & reprinted 1970)

I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use. –Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

— “Fundamentalism … is characterised by and thrives on protective stupidity.” – Peter Cameron