“ People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about… Neil deGrasse Tyson
“ Stephen Hawking asks, 'what did God do before he created the Universe?' Answer: He created Nothing Atom Tate
“ Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't just start, as it were, unofficially, it came to being between ten and twenty thousand million years a… Terry Pratchett
“ I've never really addressed those rumors because I figured, 'Why defend yourself against something that is not offensive'? Johnny Galecki
“ The claim that the universe *began* with the big bang has no basis in current physical and cosmological knowledge. The observations confirming the big bang do not rule out the possibility of a prior u… Victor J. Stenger
“ The existence of matter and energy in the universe did not require the violation of energy conservation at the assumed creation. In fact, the data strongly support the hypothesis that no such miracle… Victor J. Stenger
“ The idea that the Big Bang theory allows us to infer that the universe began to exist about 15 billion years ago has attracted the attention of many theists. This theory seemed to confirm or at least… Quentin Smith
“ As Nobel laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has put it, "The answer to the ancient question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable." ... In short, the na… Victor J. Stenger
“ The complex order we now observe [in the universe] could *not* have been the result of any initial design built into the universe at the so-called creation. The universe preserves no record of what we… Victor J. Stenger
“ I think the Big Bang theory must have been invented by a man. A woman would have wanted it to take longer and insisted on a commitment. Cassandra Danz
“ Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it. Lawrence M. Krauss
“ The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains… Victor J. Stenger
“ A beam from the everlasting sun of God.Rude and unresponsive are the stones;Yet in them divine things lie concealed;I hear their imprisoned chant:–“We are fragments of the universe,Chips of the rock w… Helen Keller
“ GOD. Sometimes I think there might be a god out there, and that every once in a while he tunes in to see what we're up to, and have a good laugh at how we like to dress him up in various costume. Robe… Suzanne Morrison
