The Battle for the Beginning

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“So in an important sense, everything Scripture says about our salvation through Jesus Christ hinges on the literal truth of what Genesis 1–3 teaches about Adam’s creation and fall. There is no more pivotal passage of Scripture.” (Pages 19–20)

“The notion that natural evolutionary processes can account for the origin of all living species has never been and never will be established as fact. Nor is it ‘scientific’ in any true sense of the word. Science deals with what can be observed and reproduced by experimentation. The origin of life can be neither observed nor reproduced in any laboratory. By definition, then, true science can give us no knowledge whatsoever about where we came from or how we got here. Belief in evolutionary theory is a matter of sheer faith. And dogmatic belief in any naturalistic theory is no more ‘scientific’ than any other kind of religious faith.” (Page 12)

“John Ankerberg and John Weldon point out that matter, time, and chance constitute the evolutionists’ holy trinity.” (Page 35)

“But Genesis 1:1 accounts for all of Spencer’s categories. ‘In the beginning’—that’s time. ‘God’—that’s force.¹⁴ ‘Created’—that’s action. ‘The heavens’—that’s space. ‘And the earth’—that’s matter. In the first verse of the Bible God laid out plainly what no scientist or philosopher cataloged until the nineteenth century.” (Page 41)

“the naturalist’s formula for the origin of the universe: Nobody times nothing equals everything.” (Page 31)