“See, there are things that are pre-Flood, but there is no such thing as "prehistoric." We have history from the first day, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." You can't go before that. So there's no such thing as "prehistoric."”
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Garden of Eden
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Kent Hovind236
American young Earth creationist 1953Related quotes
“In the beginning God created heaven and earth.”
William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
Genesis 1:1; archaic spelling: In the begynnynge God created heaven and erth.
Tyndale's translations
Nyanaponika Thera (1901–1994) German Buddhist monk
Source: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation (1965), p. 21
Context: It is a significant fact and worth pondering upon that the Bible commences with the words: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth....", while the Dhammapada … opens with the words "Mind precedes things, dominates them, creates them". These momentous words are the quiet and uncontending, but unshakeable reply of the Buddha to that biblical belief. Here the roads of these two religions part: the one leads far away into an imaginary Beyond, the other leads straight home, into man's very heart.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936)
“The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.”
Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer
Characters and Anecdotes book, 1771
Laozi book Tao Te Ching
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 1, as interpreted by Ursula K. LeGuin (1998)
Context: The way you can go
isn't the real way.
The name you can say
isn't the real name.
Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things.
So the unwanting soul
sees what's hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.
Two things, one origin,
but different in name,
whose identity is mystery.
Mystery of all mysteries!
The door to the hidden.
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 171.