19 Quotes by Michael Ruse

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.

Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.[Curb your enthusiasm,2016]

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.

I do not see evolution as something that is anti-religion.

I think intelligent design should not be taught in the biology classroom.

We find no empirical or conceptual reason whatsoever to think of intelligent design theory as genuine science.

At one level, scientists are just simply (angry). Anybody would feel a certain amount of indignation in being told they don't know what they are doing.

It's perfectly legitimate to talk about intelligent design. I think teenagers are the very people who should talk about this issue, but I don't think there's a place for it in the biology class.

In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.