Keeping Our Kids From Jumping Ship “I know that you here are in the front-line trench against powerful forces of darkness… I salute you. I sympathize with you. Fight the good fight.”

Keeping Our Kids From Jumping Ship “I know that you here are in the front-line trench against powerful forces of darkness… I salute you. I sympathize with you. Fight the good fight.”

Evolutionists “have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and 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 counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”

What about the God of the Bible? Exodus 18:11 1 Kings 18:39

What about the God of the Bible?  God is Omnipresent Psalm 139:7-10 Jer. 23:23-24 Prov. 15:3 Heb. 4:13

What about the God of the Bible?  God is Omnipresent Psalm 44:21 Psalm 147:5 Psalm 139:1-4 1 John 3:20 Isaiah 46:9-10 Eccl. 12:14  God is Omniscient

What about the God of the Bible?  God is Omnipresent  God is Omniscient  God is Omnipotent Job 38:4-7 Gen. 17:1 Gen. 18:14 Job 42:2 Heb. 11:3 1 Cor. 15:50-54 John 2:1-10 Matt. 8:13 John 11:43 Psalm 139:6 Isaiah 55:9 Psalm 90:2 Rom. 1:28

“The loneliness of the human soul is unendurable, nothing can penetrate it except the highest intensity of the sort of love that religious teachers have preached; whatever does not spring from this motive is harmful, or at best useless... Through the long years, I sought peace. I found ecstasy; I found anguish. I found madness; I found loneliness. I found solitary pain; that gnaws the heart. But peace I did not find.” (Bertrand Russell)

BEN STEIN: How did it get created? DAWKINS: By a very slow process. BEN STEIN: Well, how did it start? DAWKINS: Nobody knows how it got started. We know the kind of event that it must have been. We know the sort of event that must have happened for the origin of life. BEN STEIN: And what was that? DAWKINS: It was the origin of the first self-replicating molecule.

BEN STEIN: Right, and how did that happen? DAWKINS: I told you, we don’t know. BEN STEIN: So you have no idea how it got started. DAWKINS: No, nobody does. BEN STEIN: What do you think is the possibility that Intelligent Design might turn out to be the answer to some issues in genetics or in Darwinian evolution?

“Well, it could come about in the following way. It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved, probably by some kind of Darwinian means, probably to a very high level of technology, and designed a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. Um, now that is a possibility, and an intriguing possibility. And I suppose it’s possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of biochemistry, molecular biology, you might find a signature of some sort of designer. And that designer could well be a higher intelligence from elsewhere in the universe.”

“Evolution is the one idea that makes sense of everything we know about living organisms... There is a consensus among biologists as to the core theme of biology: It is evolution. To quote one of the founders of modern evolutionary theory, Theodosius Dobzhansky, ‘Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.’”

“This is not science. This is not truth-seeking. This is dogmatism, and it should not be allowed to dominate scientific research and teaching. Instead of using the icons of evolution to indoctrinate students in Darwinian theory, we should be using them to teach students how theories can be corrected in light of the evidence. Instead of teaching science at its worst, we should be teaching science at its best. And science at its best pursues the truth. Dobzhansky was dead wrong, and so are those who continue to chant his anti- scientific mantra. To a true scientist, nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evidence.” Icons of Evolution