he Christian doctrine as to Creation involves the following points: 1st. "In the beginning," at some unknown point of definite commencement in time. 2d. God called all things (that is, the original principles and causes of all things) into being out of nothing. Thus every thing which has or will or can exist, exterior to the Godhead, owes its being and substance as well as its form to God. 3d. This creative act is an act of free self-determined will. It was not a necessary constitutional act of free self-determined will. . .4th. It was not necessary to complete the divine excellence or blessedness. . . . But it was done in the exercise of absolute discretion for infinitely good reasons.
This doctrine is essential to Theism. All opposing theories of the origin of the world are essentially Pantheistic or Atheistic.
Charles & A.A. Hodge
These apparent difficulties of geology are just such as science has often paraded against the Bible; but God's word has stood firm, and every true advance of science has only
redounded to its honor. Christians, therefore, can afford to bear these seeming assaults with exceeding coolness. Other pretended theologians have been seen advancing, and then as easily retracting,
novel schemes of exegesis, to suit new geologic hypotheses. The Bible has often had cause here to cry, "Save me from my friends." Scarcely has the theologian announced himself as sure of his
discovery that this is the correct way to adjust Revelation to the prevalent hypotheses of the geologists, when these mutable gentlemen change their hypothesis.
Robert L. Dabney
I grew up believing in this [Evolution] Myth and I have felt -- I still feel -- its almost perfect grandeur. Let no one say we are an unimaginative age: neither the Greeks nor the
Norsemen ever invented a better story. . . . But the Myth asks me to believe that reason is simply the unforeseen and unintended by-product of a mindless process at one stage of its endless and aimless becoming.
The content of the Myth thus knocks from under me the only ground on which I could possibly believe the Myth to be true. If my own mind is a product of the irrational. . . how shall I trust
my mind when it tells me about Evolution?
C.S. Lewis
The formal completeness of the logical theory of Darwinism is fairly matched. . . by its almost ludicrous actual incompetence for the work asked of it.
Benjamin Warfield
For naturalism, the study of the natural sciences serves. . . as the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe. We can see the evidence in the religious language routinely used for the
scientific enterprise conceived within that framework. The early years of the twentieth century were the heyday for this exuberant conception. . . . People now are more likely to agree with [Aldous]
Huxley that science is "that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a given date, of Professors X, Y, and Z."
Herbert Schlossberg
[A]s the biological community considers Darwinian theory to be established beyond doubt "like the earth goes round the sun," then dissent becomes by definition irrational and
hence especially irritating if the dissenters claim to be presenting a rational critique. It is ironic to reflect that while Darwin once considered it heretical to question the immutability of species,
nowadays it is heretical to question the idea of evolution.
Michael Denton*
The fundamental objection to all these theories [of the origin of life] is that they involve raising oneself by one's bootstraps. You cannot make proteins without DNA, but you cannot
make DNA without enzymes, which are proteins. It is a chicken and egg situation. That a suitable enzyme should have cropped up by chance, even in a long period, is implausible, considering
the complexity.
Gordon Rattray Taylor*
Science is notorious for being most scientific in destruction of all the science that has gone before it. I have sometimes indulged myself in reading ancient natural history, and nothing
can be more comic. In twenty years' time some of us may probably find great amusement in the serious scientific teaching of the present hour, even as we do now in the systems of the last century.
It may happen that in a little time the doctrine of evolution will be the standing jest of schoolboys.
Charles Spurgeon
[Defenders of Evolution] must never let themselves be deflected into secondary discussions of the scientific "hows" and the metaphysical "whys". . . . Evolution has long since ceased
to be a hypothesis and [has] become a general epistemological condition. . . which must henceforth be satisfied by every hypothesis.
Teilhard de Chardin*
However attractive the extrapolation [from micro-adaptions to macro-evolution], it does not necessarily follow that, because a certain degree of evolution has been shown to
occur, therefore, any degree of evolution is possible. There is obviously an enormous difference between the evolution of a colour change in a moth's wing and the evolution of an organ like the
human brain, and the differences among the fruit flies of Hawaii, for example, are utterly trivial compared with the differences between a mouse and an elephant, or an octopus and a bee.
Michael Denton*
In some places, it is suggested (e.g., Stephen Gould) that the sudden changes might involve major new instantaneous variations. The trouble is that there is not the slightest evidence
for such changes or their causes, and much that counts against them. Apart from anything else, to ask a very old question, if an organism carries a massive new change, transforming it from its
parents, where is it going to find a mate with which to found a new species?
Michael Ruse*
[I]n our modern conflicts against the one-sided inferences from physical investigations we are wont to say that the truths of nature cannot contradict those of revelation -- both being
of God -- and as we are apt to regard as truths of nature what are sometimes only deductions from partially ascertained facts.
Alfred Edersheim
The long periods of time postulated by the evolutionists are the
conditio sine qua non for the credibility of the whole evolutionary theory of biogenesis without extra-material influence.
. . . But at the same time -- a fact consistently forgotten -- is that by increasing the time period the descent takes, we also increase the chances of additional disorder arising.
A.E. Wilder-Smith
[T]hrough one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men. . . . For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope. Romans 5:12; 8:20
