The reason why the theory of evolution was created:
'From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.'
‘One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin’s own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in saying that “more cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution … than to anything else.”
‘If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement … collapsed like a house of cards.
“The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.”
Quote from Michael D. Lemonick on paleontology
Evolution describes origins in epic proportion and therefore rivals other stories of similar scope, for example, religious stories of origins.
When Professor-Dr P.W.J. van Oordt retired from his position at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands), in his farewell address he made some memorable remarks.
At the beginning of his book The God Particle, Nobel physicist Leon Ledermann [referring to cosmological speculations like the big bang in science books and articles] writes:
Quote from Marvin Minsky on human intelligence...
Artist John Gurche on the role of evolutionary preconceptions in the artist’s human-like depiction of Australopithecus afarensis...
As you know, Carl Sagan died last month. He was vehemently anti-Christian and an ardent evolutionist who fought the creation movement.
Discover what Dr. Jérôme J. Lejeune, who discovered the cause of Down's Syndrome, said about evolution.
If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then what’s the point of trying to modify your behaviour to keep it within acceptable ranges?
‘In the course of the past century, the discoverer of every new hominid or hominoid has nominated it as a potential human ancestor.’
While evolution teaches that we are accidents or freaks of nature, creationism shows humankind as the offspring of a divine Creator.
‘“It is exciting to look at differences at the genetic level”, she said, adding that humans, regardless of race, are genetically virtually the same.’
This quotation illustrates one of evolution's many unanswered questions.
The great Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon rejected evolution on the basis of God's Word.
In September 1992, a Scientific American article called ‘Mind and Brain’ said that human brain is …
“If you brought in a smart scientist from another discipline and showed him the meagre evidence we’ve got he’d surely say, ‘forget it: there isn’t enough to go on.’”
Everybody knows fossils are fickle; bones will sing any song you want to hear.
The best efforts of scientists to describe the universe may be nothing more than "groping in the dark."
Darwinists use carefully thoughtout tactics to influence the public's beliefs about evolution.
‘If Darwinists actually had to prove their theory, they could only make a most undignified repeat.
The greatest joke and the trouble with horse evolution…
Palaeoanthropologists seem to make up for a lack of fossils with an excess of fury, and this must now be the only science in which it is still possible to become famous just by having an opinion.
There has been in recent years the horrible realization that radiodecay rates are not as constant as previously thought, nor are they immune to environmental influences.
An atheist explains why Christians must fight evolution.
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