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"I pity the man who says there isn't a Supreme Being…every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive." Albert Einstein Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it benefits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God." And, concerning his research, he was merely "thinking God's thoughts after Him." Johann Kepler - physical astronomy "There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power." Francis Bacon - scientific method "How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, then turns out to be not God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing-in fact, he has been happier in life than his nonbelieving friends. If, however, there is a God and a heaven and hell, then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends will have lost everything in hell!" Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician and founder of hydrostatics and hydrodynamics "No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily implies continuous change" James Clerk Maxwell, statistical thermodynamics "The works created by God at first and by Him conserved to this day in the same state and condition in which they were first made" From his writings, "The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation" John Ray, Father of English Natural History and one of the founding members of the Royal Society, Leading authority in his day of botany and zoology. "We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever." Sir Isaac Newton "The Bible, and it alone, with nothing added to it nor taken away from it by man, is the sole and sufficient guide for each individual, at all times and in all circumstances…For faith in the divinity and work of Christ is the gift of God, and the evidence of this faith is obedience to the commandment of Christ." Michael Faraday, physicist "… is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed." "…order is manifestly maintained in the universe…the entire machinery, complicated as it is, works smoothly and harmoniously…the whole being governed by the sovereign will of God." James Prescott Joule, thermodynamics
"… that the study of the works of nature with scientific precision, was a necessary and indispensable preparation to the understanding and interpreting their testimony of the wisdom and goodness of their Divine Author." Charles Babbage, mathematician, computer pioneer
"All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths come from on high and contained in the sacred writings." Sir John Herschel, astronomer
"The nearer I approach to the end of my pilgrimage, the clearer is the evidence of the divine origin of the Bible, the grandeur and sublimity of God's remedy for fallen man are more appreciated, and the future is illumined with hope and joy." Samuel F. B. Morris, inventor
"The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the sacred Word." James Dana, geologist
"The more I know, the more does my faith approach that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman." "The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator…Science brings men nearer to God." Louis Pasteur, medicine
"Life has always arisen from life. We see it being transmitted and never being produced." "What law is there, which could force the Creator to form unnecessarily useless organisms just to fill gaps in a scale?" Georges Cuvier, paleontology
"Without Him, I understand nothing; without Him, all is darkness…Every period has its manias. I regard Atheism as a mania. It is the malady of the age. You could take my skin from me more easily than my faith in God." Henri Fabre, biologist
"With regard to the origin of life, science…positively affirms creative power… Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us…the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words." Lord Kelvin William Thompson
"I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity." Joseph Lister, surgeon
"I think the widespread impression of the agnosticism of scientific men is largely due to the attitude taken up by a few of the great populizers of sciences, like Tyndall and Huxley. It has been my experience that the disbelieve in the revelation that God has given in the life and work, death and resurrection of our Savior is more prevalent among what I may call the camp followers of science than amongst those to whom scientific work is the business of their lives." Alexander MacAlister, Professor of Anatomy, Cambridge
"The world around us, far more intricate than any watch, filled with checks and balances of a hundred varieties marvelous beyond even the imagination of the most skilled scientific investigator, this beautiful and intricate creation, bears the signature of its Creator, graven in its works." Charles Steine, organic chemist
"The theory of evolution is impossible. At base, in spite of appearances, no one any longer believes in it…Evolution is a kind of dogma which the priests no longer believe, but which they maintain for their people." Paul Lemoine, President of the Geological Society of France and Director of the Natural History Museum in France, early 1900s
"Manned space flight is an amazing achievement, but it has opened for mankind thus far only a tiny door for viewing the awesome reaches of space. An outlook through this peephole at the vast mysteries of the universe should only confirm our belief in the certainty of its Creator. I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality be hind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science." Dr. Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist
"…There is no suggestion in the Bible that God created over long periods of time, there is only one model of creation in the Bible: God does it all in six days." Dr. Ariel A. Roth, biologist, Director of the Georesearch Institute, Loma Linda, California
"I am firmly convinced that there is far more scientific evidence supporting a recent, six-day creation and global flood than there is an old earth and evolution." Dr. Keith H. Wanser, physicist
"If you define science as repeatable, reliable, observational fact, it's obvious that evolution doesn't really qualify as science. People make these huge jumps; they see these tiny changes happening today, and so they conclude that all life forms have arisen from chemicals by a continuous process over millions of years. That's not science, that's a belief." Dr. Brian Stone, B.Sc., Ph.D., is Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Western Australia
"The implications of the science of thermodynamics were instrumental in convincing this author that long periods of time are not only unnecessary, but also lethal to the theories of gradual and natural development of intelligent design." Dr. Jeremy L. Walter, Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
"That life requires a certain minimum number of parts is well documented, and the only debate is how many millions of functionally integrated parts are necessary -not the fact that a minimum number must exist for life to live." Dr. Jerry R. Bergman, Biologist
"The chance of a random shuffling of amino acids producing a workable set of enzymes' to be less than 1040,000, and the famous unrealistically optimistic Green Band equation gives the chance of finding life on another planet on the order of only one in 1030." And "…there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth." Sir Fred Hoyle
"Weeks of reading and studying this subject provided me with no logical mechanisms for evolutionary processes." "The Genesis record implies that this world is very young…that one should expect to see overwhelming evidence of design of everywhere, in both physical and biological systems, and that there is a coherency and similarity between all systems, suggesting a common designer. The first evidence is that all life and non-life processes obey the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Therefore, the present world had a beginning and is measurably going downhill…numerous pieces of evidence fit a young earth. To mention a few: the historical records, the population growth, the helium content in this world, the missing neutrinos from the sun, the oscillation period of the sun, the decline of the Earth's magnetic field, the limited number of supernovas, radioactive halos, the mitochondrial DNA pointing to one mother, and the increase in genetic diseases, etc." Dr. John K. G. Kramer, Biochemist
"Complexity of the cell is now just too daunting to flippantly assert biochemical evolution to explain it, unless you close your mind and press on blindly and boldly…if cells could not originate naturally, than nothing else could." "We must contribute together to the safe and smooth operation of nature because it nurtures all of us. Is this not what the Creator meant when he told man to tend and keep the garden? This is the way of heaven-to give and to receive without worry-as taught by Jesus himself. Biodiversity is a powerful testimony about the Creator…" Dr. Paul Giem, Medical Research
"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about the conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries." Dr. Robert Jastrow, Founder and Director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies
"Its often said, and widely believed, that scientists on the whole are anti-religious or at least, are not interested in religion. I believed that for a long time too. But no longer…As I perceive it, the fact is the scientists, the physicists at least, who have been most active, most successful in developing the quantum theory and further innovations in physics, are very interested in religion. If you consider scientists of the type of high school teachers or grade school teachers or Carl Sagan, you find that, yes, there is a lack of interest . Quite a few of them are anti-religious But, if you take the outstanding physicists, the ones who have done the most to advance modern physics especially Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Dirac (a Nobel prize winner) you find them all interested in religion. All these men were intensely interested in religion." Dr. Henry Margenau, Professor of Physics for over 40 years and Yale University
"The appearance of conflict is a result of ignorance. We come to exist through a divine act. That divine guidance is a theme throughout our life; at our death the brain goes, but that divine guidance and love continues. Each of us is a unique conscious being, a divine creation." Sir John Eccles, Nobel Laureate, neurobiologist
Honorable mention: Edward Blythe, who discovered the concept of natural selection about a quarter of a century before Darwin, Blythe, a Christian and a creationist, only made of this concept what he could observe (generally touted as good science). That is, that natural selection is just one of the forces sorting existing varieties into different environments. However, Darwin made it 1"into the basis of a new religion-a religion without revelation! His theory gave people an excuse to discount the existence of God and, therefore, be accountable only to themselves."
Confessions of the Evolutionary Atheist Scientists…and Darwin
"To suppose that the eye, ... could have been formed by natural selection, seems I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." And, "...Intermediate links?" Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic change, and this is perhaps the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory ." "Geological research…does not yield the infinitely many fine gradations between past and present species required." Charles Darwin
Complexities of life could not "have arisen by pure chance." "It seems almost impossible to give any numerical value to the probability of what seems a rather unlikely sequence of events." Francis Crick - co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule
"When a new phylum, class, or order appears, there follows a quick explosive in terms of geological time) diversification so that practically all orders or families known appear suddenly and without any apparent transitions." "…in spite of the immense amount of paleontological material and the long series of intact rock sequences with perfect records for the lower categories, transitions between the higher categories are missing." Professor Richard Goldschmidt, world renowned geneticist, quote from 1940 and originator of the "hopeful monster" theory
"Since we have not the slightest evidence, either among the living or the fossil animals, of any intergrading types following between the major groups it is a fair supposition that there never have been any such intergrading types." Dr. Austin Clark, biologist of the Smithsonian Institute
"This regular absence of transitional forms is not confined to mammals, but is an almost universal phenomenon, as has long been noted by paleontologists." Dr. George Gaylord Simpson, paleontologist, Harvard University
"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill may of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods of institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, the materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." Richard Lewontin, geneticist
"I regard the failure to find a clear 'vector of progress' in life's history as the most puzzling fact of the fossil record... We have sought to impose a pattern that we hoped to find on a world that does not really display it." "Everybody knows the fossil record doesn't provide much evidence for gradualism; it is full of gaps and discontinuities. These gaps are all attributed to the notorious imperfection of the record, but this not an adequate explanation…This remarkable stasis has generally been ignored. If it doesn't agree with your ideas you don't talk about it." "The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches: the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of the fossils." "Can a reasonable story of continuous change be constructed for all macroevolutionary events ? My answer shall be no." Dr. Steven Jay Gould
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