.....“The world is stablished, that it cannot be moved.” Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
..........— John Calvin. Quoted in
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell, Book Three, pt. I, ch. VI. (The Scriptural quote is from Psalms 93:1.)
.....People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus] who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
..........— Martin Luther (1483-1546), Father of the Reformation.
Ibid.
.....I don’t care what the educational political lobby and their allies on the left say, evolution is hooey.
..........— Dr. Don McLeroy, D.D.S., former Texas School Board member. Quoted in
"Revisionaries: How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids’ textbooks" by Mariah Blake, Washington Monthly, January/February 2010.