Ellen Johnson, President van de organisatie American Atheists van 1995 tot 2008, activiste voor de rechten van atheïsten en scheiding van kerk en staat in de Verenigde Staten.

Nearly all peoples have developed their own creation myth, and the Genesis story is just the one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants. All these myths have in common that they depend upon the deliberate intentions of some kind of supernatural being.

~ Richard Dawkins