The Case for a Creator (51 page)

12
. Quoted in Holly J. Morris, “Life’s Grand Design,”
U.S. News and World Report
(July 29, 2002).

13
. Michael Ruse,
Can a Darwinian Be a Christian?
(Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 217, 128.

14
. Richard F. Carlson, editor,
Science and Christianity: Four Views
(Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2000), 81.

15
. Ibid., 187.

16
. Douglas Futuyma,
Evolutionary Biology
(Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer, 1986), 3.

17
. William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, editors,
Signs of Intelligence
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos, 2001), 44.

18
. Quoted in Michael Ruse,
Can a Darwinian Be a Christian?
98.

19
. Romans 1:20.

20
. Richard F. Carlson, editor,
Science and Christianity: Four Views,
139.

21
. Ibid., 118.

22
. George Gaylord Simpson,
The Meaning of Evolution
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967), 345.

23
. Richard F. Carlson, editor,
Science and Christianity: Four Views,
118.

24
. Nancy Pearcey, “Design and the Discriminating Public: Gaining a Hearing from Ordinary People,” in William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, editors,
Signs of Intelligence
, 44. Emphasis in original.

25
. Ibid., quoting: Gertrude Himmelfarb,
Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor, 1959), 329–30.

26
. Phillip E. Johnson, quoted in
World
(July/August 2002).

27
. Ernst Mayr, foreword to
Darwinism Defended
, by Michael Ruse (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1982), xi-xii.

28
. See: Gordy Slack, “A Good Life,”
UCI Journal
(Spring 1999), available at:
www.today.uci.edu/journal/99spring/f2.html
(January 2, 2002).

29
. John H. Campbell and J. William Schopf, editors,
Creative Evolution?!
(Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1994), 4–5.

30
. William Provine, “Scientists Face It! Science and Religion Are Incompatible,”
The Scientist
2 (1988).

31
. Edward O. Wilson,
On Human Nature
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978), 1. Emphasis added.

32
. “Iconoclast of the Century: Charles Darwin (1809–1882),”
Time
(December 31, 1999).

33
.
World Book Encyclopedia
, Volume 5 (Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational Corp., 1962 edition), 334.

34
. Quoted in: Phillip E. Johnson, “The Intelligent Design Movement: Challenging the Modernist Monopoly on Science,” in: William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, editors,
Signs of Intelligence
, 34.

35
. Bertrand Russell,
Why I Am Not a Christian
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957), 106.

36
. Ibid., 107.

37
. Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover, and The Jesus Seminar,
The Five Gospels
(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993), 2.

38
. See: Lee Strobel,
The Case for Christ
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan. 1998).

39
. See: Lee Strobel,
The Case for Faith
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2000).

40
. Linus Pauling,
No More War!
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1958), 209.

41
. Available at
search.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/ evol4.html
(January 5, 2003).

42
. Robert M. Augros and George N. Stanciu,
The New Story of Science
(New York: Bantam, 1986), xiv.

43
. Ibid., xv.

Chapter 3: Doubts about Darwinism

1
. Quoted in
Scientific American
(July 2000).

2
. Larry Hatfield, “Educators Against Darwin,”
Science Digest
(Winter 1979).

3
. “A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism,” two-page advertisement,
The Weekly Standard
(October 1, 2001).

4
. See:
Getting the Facts Straight
(Seattle: Discovery Institute Press, 2001), 11.

5
. Ibid., 9.

6
. Jonathan Wells,
Charles
Hodge’s Critique of Darwinism: An Historical-Critical Analysis of Concepts Basic to the 19th Century Debate
(Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1988).

7
. What Wells called his “faith journey” even brought him to the Unification Church, partly because he shared its strong anticommunist stance. For critiques of this group, whose theology I thoroughly disagree with, see: Ruth A. Tucker,
Another Gospel
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan 1989), 245–66.

8
. See: Jonathan Wells,
Icons of Evolution
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2000).

9
. Note that all interviews have been edited for conciseness, clarity, and content.

10
. While Wells’s definition of neo-Darwinism is valid, I generally have used the term “Darwinism” in this book to encompass the concept of neo-Darwinism.

11
. See: Philip H. Abelson, “Chemical Events on the Primitive Earth,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
USA
55 (1966), 1365–72.

12
. See: Michael Florkin, “Ideas and Experiments in the Field of Prebiological Chemical Evolution,”
Comprehensive
Biochemistry
29B (1975), 231–60.

13
. See: Sidney W. Fox and Klaus Dose,
Molecular Evolution and the Origin of Life
(New York: Marcel Dekker, revised edition 1977), 43, 74–76.

14
. John Cohen, “Novel Center Seeks to Add Spark to Origins of Life,”
Science
270 (1995), 1925–26.

15
. See: Gerald F. Joyce, “RNA Evolution and the Origins of Life,”
Nature
338 (1989), 217–24; and Robert Irion, “RNA Can’t Take the Heat,”
Science
279 (1998), 1303.

16
. Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley, and Roger L. Olsen,
The Mystery of Life’s Origin
(Dallas: Lewis and Stanley, 1984).

17
. See: Lee Strobel,
The Case for Faith
, 87–112.

18
. Gregg Easterbrook, “The New Convergence.”

19
. Lee Strobel,
The Case for Faith
, 108.

20
. John Horgan, “A Holiday Made for Believing,”
New York Times
(December 25, 2002).

21
. Francis Crick,
Life Itself
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981), 88.

22
. Lee Strobel,
The Case for Faith
, 108.

23
. The biological classifications in ascending order are: species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, and kingdom. For example, for human beings, the classifications would be: species (sapiens); genus (homo); family (hominids); order (primates); class (mammals); phylum (chordates); and kingdom (animals).

24
. The big bright spot, of course, was the Bears’ 46–10 victory over New England in Super Bowl XX, which was played on January 26, 1986, at the Louisiana Superdome.

25
. See: Jeffrey H. Schwartz, “Homeobox Genes, Fossils, and the Origin of Species,”
Anatomical Record
(New Anatomist)
257 (1999), 15–31.

26
. See: James W. Valentine and Douglas H. Erwin, “Interpreting Great Developmental Experiments: The Fossil Record,” in: Rudolf A. Raff and Elizabeth C. Raff, editors,
Development as an Evolutionary Process
(New York: Alan R. Liss, 1987), 84–85.

27
. See: Stephen Jay Gould, “Abscheulich! Atrocious!”
Natural History
(March, 2002).

28
. For a description of how various textbooks use embryo drawings, see: Jonathan Wells,
Icons of
Evolution
, 101–104.

29
.
The World Book Encyclopedia
, Volume 2, 242.

30
. See: Kenneth Miller, “What Does It Mean To Be One Of Us?”
Life
(November 1996).

31
. See: Jonathan Wells,
Icons of Evolution
, 105.

32
. Lewis Wolpert,
The Triumph of the Embryo
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 185.

33
. See: Tim Berra,
Evolution and the Myth of Creationism
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990), 117–19.

34
. R. Gore, “Dinosaurs,”
National Geographic
(January 1993).

35
. Michael Denton,
Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
(Chevy Chase, Md.: Adler and Adler, 1986), 162.

36
. Ibid., 172.

37
. Larry D. Martin, “The Relationship of
Archaeopteryx
to other Birds,” in: M. K. Hecht, J. H. Ostrom, G. Viohl, and P. Wellnhofer, editors,
The Beginnings of Birds
(Eichstätt: Freunde des Jura-Museums, 1985), 182, quoted in: Jonathan Wells,
Icons of Evolution
, 116.

38
. Pierre Lecomte du Nouy,
Human Destiny
(New York: Longmaus, Green and Co., 1947), quoted in: Hank Hanegraaff,
The Face That Demonstrates the Farce of Evolution
(Nashville: Word, 1998), 37.

39
. Phillip E. Johnson,
Darwin on Trial
, 81.

40
. Kathy A. Svitil, “Plucking Apart the Dino-Birds,”
Discover
(February 2003).

41
. Ibid.

42
. Discovery of what news articles described as a “four-winged dinosaur” caused a stir in early 2003. In a letter to the
New York Times
, however, Howard Zimmerman, co-editor of
The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs
, said he doubted whether this finding “will cast new light on the evolution of birds.” He said that “since the geographic strata in which the fossils were found are about 125 million years old, this animal could not have been the progenitor of the avian line.” In other words, Zimmerman indicated it was not “the missing evolutionary link.” See: “Do Birds and Dinosaurs Flock Together?”
New York Times
(January 26, 2003).

43
. See: Charles Darwin,
The Origin of Species
(New York: Grammercy, 1998).

44
. “Ape Man: The Story of Human Evolution,” hosted by Walter Cronkite, Arts and Entertainment network, September 4, 1994, quoted in: Hank Hanegraaff,
The Face That Demonstrates the Farce of Evolution
, 57.

45
. Marvin L. Lubenow,
Bones of Contention
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1992), 86.

46
.
World Book Encyclopedia,
Volume 10, 50.

47
. Martin L. Lubenow,
Bones of Contention
, 87.

48
. Hank Hanegraaff,
The Face That Demonstrates the Farce of Evolution
, 50.

49
. See: Martin L. Lubenow,
Bones of Contention
, 86–99.

50
. Hank Hanegraaff,
The Face That Demonstrates the Farce of Evolution
, 52.

51
. Martin L. Lubenow,
Bones of Contention
, 87.

52
. Michael D. Lemonick, “How Man Began,”
Time
(March 14, 1994), quoted in: Hank Hanegraaff,
The Face That Demonstrates the Farce of Evolution
, 52.

53
. See: Constance Holden, “The Politics of Paleoanthropology,”
Science
213 (1981).