John Marburger quotes

John Marburger quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.”
-- John Marburger

#Intelligent Quotes #Design Quotes #Religion Quotes

“Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.”

Source : "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 160), 1986.
“I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.”

Source : "Saddam Hussein's Former Doctor Paints a Different Picture" by Charlotte Sector, abcnews.go.com. April 28, 2006.
“Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.”
“Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.”
“There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time”
“It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.”
“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”
“Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.”

Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
“A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'”
“I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.”

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