"The belief that God created all things, including men and women, in His own image requires faith. But evolutionary theory requires more faith because evolution runs contrary to science (e.g., spontaneous generation) and history (e.g., the fossil record). Still, many evolutionists hold desperately to their theory, simply because it is the only explanation of origins that begins with nature, not God. Scientists who believe that everything can be explained in natural terms cannot tolerate the concept of a supernatural Being. In fact, one scientist said, 'Science must be provisionally atheistic or cease to be itself.' For Christian biologists, however the world is comprehensible only in the light of God's existence. As a piece of art suggests an artist, the orderly universe and every living thing suggest a Designer."
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Good quote! Especially the part about scientists "who believe that everything can be explained in natural terms cannot tolerate the concept of a supernatural Being." I've been told time and time again in my profession that the belief in a supernatural God means we have no basis for assuming that our data are the product of orderly natural laws (since God may have interceded in our experiments at any time). But orderly laws in the natural world imply an orderly Creator! As Pierre Duhem and Stanley Jaki have shown from historical analysis, science must be absolutely *theistic* or cease to be itself! (And as Robert Merton has shown, the *Puritans and Calvinists* have led the pack in science!)
I love the quotes you've chosen to share from "Understanding the Times"! They remind me of my family's time in AIG's Answers Academy and the other similar studying we've done.
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