Quotes

Every enquiry must seek the truth. Therefore, we decided to hang the CSM website on the objections raised by our opponents to Special Creation. Logical conclusions can only be drawn from the facts, so we will only rely on scientific facts and rational thinking when discussing these quotes. Click any quote to drill down.

We shall lead with the late Richard Lewontin, Marxist and Atheist.

“Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfil many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated justso stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism….. …. we are forced by our 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.”

Gordy Slack, In 2008

“Evolution should be able to explain, in theory at least, all the way back to the very first organism that could replicate itself through biological or chemical processes. And to understand that organism fully, we would simply have to know what came before it. And right now we are nowhere close.”

Thomas Nagel, Professor of Philosophy and law at NY University.

"I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, hope I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that. My guess is that this cosmic authority problem is not a rare condition and that it is responsible for much of the scientism and reductionism of our time."

Many others are coming to similar conclusions. The standard theory of evolution that all of us were taught as children states all of today’s lifeforms can be traced back to a common ancestor, and the various traits that evolved lie at the branching points in different species.

Unfortunately, the above is not true. Many features within the animal kingdom occur in animals so widely separated from each other on the evolutionary tree that they do not have a common origin.

Statistically, the probability of something evolving is infinitesimally small. When something happens twice, we multiple the odds. The probability of a significant evolutionary change happening in the first place is to all intents and purposes zero; and for it to happen twice we’d multiple ‘impossible’ x impossible’. If it happened three times, we’d multiple once again. The evolutionist Kevin Kelly had this to say

“Hundreds, or thousands of cases of isolated significant convergent evolution suggest something else at work. Some other force [besides evolution?] pushes the self-organization of evolution towards recurring solutions. A different dynamic besides the lottery of natural selection steers the course of evolution so that it can reach a remote unlikely destination more than once. It is not a supernatural force, but a fundamental dynamic as simple in its core as evolution itself.”

Kevin is telling us that the classical theory of evolution clearly doesn’t work, and while he dismisses the possibility of a cause beyond human understanding which relies on the supernatural, he concedes that the only current alternative is no good. He is thus forced to exercise blind faith believing that some as yet undiscovered alternative to God will be thought up.