To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. – Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, pg 18
For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I arrived.
– Charles Darwin, Origin of Species Pg 3
I was a young man with unformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.
– Charles Darwin
One only has to contemplate the magnitude of this task [evolution] to concede that spontaneous generation of a living organisms is impossible; yet, I choose to believe that which I know to be impossible rather than accept the unthinkable, special Creation. – Dr. George Wald, Professor of Biology, Harvard
When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: Creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved one hundred years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds, therefore, we chose to believe the impossible: That life arose spontaneously by chance!
- George Wald, Harvard University biochemist & Nobel Laureate (1954)
The scientist’s pursuit of the past ends in the moment of Creation [First Cause]. We cannot get past that to answer any questions. This is an exceedingly strange development; unexpected by all but the theologians. They have always accepted the words of the Bible: ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.’ For the scientist who has lived by his faith in evolution and reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak, and as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.
- Robert Jastrow, Founder NASA’s Goddard Space Institute
The origin of the genetic code presents formidable unsolved problems. The coded information in the nucleotide sequence is meaningless without the translation machinery, but the specification for this machinery is coded in the DNA. Thus without the machinery the information is meaningless, but without the coded information the machinery cannot be produced. This presents a paradox of the ‘chicken and egg’ variety, and attempts to solve it have so far been sterile.
– John Walton, chemist
The possibility of life arising by chance is about the same as the probability that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard could assemble a [Boeing] 747 from the contents therein. – Sir Fredric Hoyle, Evolution from Space
Very comforting words from scientists who hold no faith in God, don't you think?
