Creationism - National Center for Science Education

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