"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice."

John Calvin

"It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into anything."

G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Garden City, NY: Doubleday Image, 1933, p. 174

"The love for all living creatures is the noblest attribute of man."

Charles Darwin

"As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: What did God do before he created the universe? Augustine didn't reply: He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions. Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe."

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, 1988, p. 8
 
"To the modern man it seems simply natural that an ordered cosmos should emerge from 
chaos, that life should come out of the inanimate, reason out of instinct, civilization 
out of savagery, virtue out of animalism. This idea is supported in his mind by a number 
of false analogies: the oak coming out of the acorn, the man from the spermatozoon, the 
modern steamship from the primitive coracle. The supplementary truth that every acorn was 
dropped by an oak, every spermatozoon derived from a man, and the first boat... [from] a 
man of genius, is simply ignored. The modern mind accepts as a formula for the universe 
in general the principle "Almost nothing may be expected to turn into almost everything" 
without noticing that the parts of the universe under our direct observation tell a quite 
different story." 

From Present Concerns: Essays by C. S. Lewis, 
"Modern Man and His Categories of Thought," 1946

"Do we want to know whether Christ was resurrected on Easter? God provides the grace to believe in that, but note: Such belief requires less faith in things unseen than believing that the world as we know it evolved out of nothing."

Marvin Olasky

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