Creationism - National Center for Science Education
Creationism - National Center for Science Education
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In The New Geology (1923:679-80) Price said, regarding evolutionary uni<strong>for</strong>mitarianism<br />
and creationist catastrophism:<br />
As these two hypotheses are mutually contradictory, only one can possibly be true. The other must be<br />
absolutely and wholly false. Either the present is a fair measure of all the past, and there has been a long<br />
succession of ages under conditions much like the present; or there has been, at some time in the past, a<br />
world change quite different from the present order of things—so different as to make unreliable any<br />
attempt to tabulate off in an accurate historical succession the events preceding this world catastrophe.<br />
Alfred Watterson McCann, in God—or Gorilla (1922:331-332), wrote:<br />
That there should be no weakening of the fascination of ‘Darwinism,’ as the theory of man’s ape-origin,<br />
is ...the most disquieting and at the same time most inexplicable phenomenon of the twentieth century, <strong>for</strong><br />
the simple reason that the preponderance of scientific evidence, including all the established data and all the<br />
opinions based on truth as it has been stripped of error, have come into court solidly against the ape,<br />
whereas, on the other hand, there remains on the side of the ape nothing but the old inferences and<br />
assumptions, nothing but the old hypotheses and unsupported theories based on erroneous or deliberately<br />
fabricated premises, nothing but the old conflicts and contradictions, nothing but the old falsifications and<br />
exposures. In their choice the nations have the alternative of chaos or Christ.<br />
Creationist Herman Otten wrote Baal or God (1965), echoing Bryan’s phrase that<br />
the Scopes Trial presented a “choice between God or Baal.”<br />
Walter Lang (1968) quotes Arthur Schnabel:<br />
Our social life demands the creation approach, <strong>for</strong> socialism and communism destroy the individual. All<br />
fields of science need the creation approach <strong>for</strong> it is the simplest and best explanation of origins and agrees<br />
best with the latest scientific data. Government needs the creation approach—the alternative is a Hitler or a<br />
Stalin.<br />
Francis Nigel Lee wrote a book called Communism Versus Creation (1969).<br />
John Roach Straton, in his debate with Potter, said:<br />
There<strong>for</strong>e, the issue in this debate is not only an issue between creation and evolution, but between God<br />
and no God.<br />
Furthermore, it is evident that there is no possible compromise between these two systems of thought.<br />
There is no middle ground. Either creation is true and evolution is false, or else evolution is true and<br />
creation is false. Either we must accept the revelation of a living God, and His creative and redemptive<br />
activities as given in the Bible, or we must utterly reject this and turn to the infidel philosophy of chance<br />
and materialism. [1924:34]<br />
F. Bettex wrote [1901:157]:<br />
If these first words [of Genesis] are not true, throw your Bible aside; it begins with a lie! But if there is a<br />
beginning, a God, a heaven, and an earth, then the Bible is true down to the last word concerning the new<br />
heaven and the new earth. You are a Christian, or you are not! There is no middle way...<br />
Rev. William Williams, who first popularized the anti-evolution probability<br />
arguments, says that “If evolution wins, Christianity loses.” He agrees with other<br />
fundamentalists that “If the Bible is not really inspired, it is the greatest fraud ever<br />
perpetrated on mankind,” and “if Moses was not inspired, he was the greatest liar in<br />
history” (1925:112).