Evolutionary claim:

"The cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be"  - Carl Sagan

REALITY CHECK:

Lewontin, Richard, "Billions and Billions of Demons," a review of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, New York Review of Books, January 9. 1997: 31 - [As quoted in Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design /edited by William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner p.18]

"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many 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 to materialism. 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 counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated." (Emphasis in the original.)

(Unless otherwise noted, quotations below  are from the book by Henry Morris, That Their Words May Be Used Against Them, available from the Institute for Creation Research. Links are to articles and papers on the World Wide Web. As you visit the links below, please take  time to tour the websites that host them and become familiar with the resources they offer. )

• Reflections on Naturalism by Jim Pamplin       

Just as intervention freed the author from a bewildering maze of mirrors as a child, 
so too, an extraterrestrial frame of reference, transcending our space-time domain, 
resolves the Human Conundrum.

• The Worldview of Naturalism: Matter Only (& Atheism) by R. Totten

Naturalism is one of several prominent worldviews evaluated on World View Test Site using three standardized truth tests.

• Einstein's Gulf: Can Evolution Cross It? by John W. Oller
  
  How does one justify abstract entities in a Naturalistic universe?

Einstein, A. (1944). Remarks on Russell's theory of knowledge. In P. A. Schlipp (ed.) 
The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell (pp.277-291). New York: Tudor.

p. 289
"We have the habit of combining certain concepts and conceptual relations (propositions) so definitely with certain sense experiences that we do not become conscious of the gulf—logically 
unbridgeable—which separates the world of sensory experiences from the world of concepts and propositions."

"You find it strange that I consider the comprehensibility of the world (to the extent that we are authorized to speak of such a comprehensibility) as a miracle or as an eternal mystery. Well, a priori one should expect a chaotic world, which cannot be grasped by the mind in any way . . . . [T]he kind of order created by Newton’s theory of gravitation, for example, is wholly different. Even if man proposes the axioms of the theory, the success of such a project presupposes a high degree of ordering of the objective world, and this could not be expected a priori. That is the “miracle” which is being constantly reinforced as our knowledge expands.^"

^{Albert Einstein, Letters to Solovine (New York: Philosophical Library, 1987), 131.}

• Theism, Atheism, and Rationality  by Alvin Plantinga, Ph.D. 
  

• The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism by Philip E. Johnson, professor of law, University of California, Berkeley  

• Scientific Naturalism As Science by Larry Vardiman, Ph.D.

• The Great Debate: Does GOD Exist? A formal debate between theist Greg L. Bahnsen, Ph.D., and atheist Gordon Stein, Ph.D., at the University of California Irvine, in 1985. Reviewed here by Don Craig.

• The Great Debate: Does GOD Exist?  A transcript of the debate. (Does not include introductory or closing comments by the debate moderator.)

• Hume, Kant, and Rational Theism by Hugo Meynell, Ph.D. 
  

• "The Paradigm of Naturalism, Compared with a Viable Alternative: A Scientific Philosophy for the Study of Origins"  by Leonard R. Brand 

• The Incompatibility of Naturalism and Scientific Realism  by Robert C. Koons
  

• The Origin of the Universe by Mark Eastman and Chuck Missler

This article is Chapter 2 of The Creator beyond Time And Space by Mark Eastman and Chuck Missler.

Click on the book icon to access this and other products available through Mark Eastman's website, www.marshill.org.

• Is There Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God? How the Recent Discoveries Support a Designed Universe  by Dr. Walter L. Bradley
  

• Is There A God? by Marilyn Adamson

Other Books

• The Myth of Natural Origins: How Science Points To Divine Creation (Tempe, AZ: Ktisis Publishing, 1994) by Ashby L. Camp, J.D., M.DIV

Questions or comments? Please email  jim@darwinisdead.com .

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