1 Nigel Hawkes, "Hunt on for Dark Secret of Universe," London
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2 The Associated Press, "U.S. Scientists Find a ‘Holy Grail’:
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(London), 24 April 1992, p. 1.
3 The Associated Press, p. 1.
4 Hawkes, p. 1.
5 David Briggs, "Science, Religion, Are Discovering Commonality
in Big Bang Theory," Los Angeles Times, 2 May 1992, pp. B6-B7.
6 Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos (Colorado Springs, CO:
Nav Press, 2001).
7 Stephen Strauss, "An Innocent’s Guide to the Big Bang Theory:
Fingerprint in Space Left by the Universe as a Baby Still Has
Doubters Hurling Stones," The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 25 April
1992, p. 1.
8 Robert Jastrow, "A Scientist Caught Between Two Faiths,"
Christianity Today, August 6, 1992.
9 Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos, p. 108.
10 Paul Davies, The Cosmic Blueprint (New York: Simon & Schuster,
1998), p. 203.
11 Duane Gish, Evolution: The Challenge of the Fossil Records,
(El Cajon, CA: Creation-Life Publishers, Inc., Master Book Division,
1985), p. 12.
12 Robert Jastrow, "A Scientist Caught Between Two Faiths,"
Christianity Today, August 6, 1982.
13 Sir Isaac Newton, "Mathematical Principles of Natural
Philosophy," Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 34, 1952, p. 369.
14 Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers (New York: W.W. Norton
Press, 1978), p. 116.
15 Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Bethesda, MD:
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16 Sir Fred Hoyle, "Hoyle on Evolution," Nature, Vol. 294,
November 12, 1981, p. 105.
17 H. P. Yockey, "A Calculation of the Probability of Spontaneous
Biogenesis by Information Theory," Journal of Theoretical Biology
67, 1977, p. 396.
18 George Wald, "The Origin of Life," Life: Origin and Evolution
(San Francisco: W.H. Freeman Publishing, 1979), p. 48.
19 Francis Crick, Life Itself (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1981), p. 88.
20 William Day, Genesis on Planet Earth: The Search for Life’s
Beginning (East Lansing, MI: House of Tabs, 1979), pp. 231-232.
21 Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, pp. 327-328.
22 Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, "Where Microbes Boldly
Went," New Scientist 91, 1981, pp. 412- 15.
23 Emile Borel, Nobel Prize Winner, Probabilities and Life (New
York: Dover, 1962) ch. 1-3.
24 Scott M. Huse, The Collapse of Evolution (Grand Rapids, MI:
Baker Bookhouse, 1983), p. 94.
25 Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, p. 326.
26 P.S. Moorhead and M. M. Kaplan, eds., Mathematical Challenges
to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, Wistar Institute
Press, Philadelphia, 1967, pp. 109. [Here is an evolutionary
mathematician calculating the probability of a single cell evolving
into something as complicated as a man and concluding that his
calculations show that the probability of a chance process to
accomplish that is zero.]
27 Lewis Thomas, quoted by Henry Brand and Philip Yancey,
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980), p.
25.
28 Chandra Wickramasinghe, quoted by Norman Geisler, A. F.
Brooke, and Mark J. Keosh, The Creator in the Courtroom (Milford,
MI: Mott Media, 1982), p. 149.
29 Geisler, Brooke, Keosh, p. 151.
30 Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods (Nashville, TN: Thomas
Nelson, Inc.), p. 65.
31 Fred Hoyle, "The Big Bang in Astronomy," New Scientist, 92,
Nov. 19, 1981.
32 Cited in Evan Shute, Flaws in the Theory of Evolution (Nutley,
NJ: Craig Press, 1971), pp. 23-24.
33 Harold F. Blum, Time’s Arrow and Evolution (2nd ed.,
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1955).
34 Walter L. Bradley and Charles B. Thaxton, "Information and the
Origin of Life" in J. P. Moreland (ed.), The Creation Hypothesis (IVP,
1994), p. 190.
35 Ibid., emphasis added; cf., William A. Dembski, "Reviving the
Argument from Design: Detecting Design Through Small Probabilities,"
Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the Association of
Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 8, (1991), pp.
101-145.
36 James Coppedge, Evolution Possible or Impossible? (Grand
Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1973); See the additional refs. in Darwin’s
Leap of Faith, p. 371.
37 Coppedge, Evolution p.114.
38 Ibid.
39 David J. Rodabough, "The Queen of Science Examines the King of
Fools," Creation Research Society Quarterly, June 1975, p. 15.
40 Coppedge, Evolution, for an extended discussion.
41 Cited in Nature, November 12, 1981, p. 105, emphasis added.
42 Cited in Mark Eastman, Chuck Missler, The Creator Beyond Time
and Space, (Costa Mesa, CA:TWFT, 1996), p. 61.
43 Robert Shapiro, Origins: A Skeptic’s Guide to the Creation of
Life on Earth (New York: Simon and Schuster, Summit Books, 1986) p.
128.
44 Eastman and Missler, p. 61.
45 Howard Byington Holroyd, "Darwinism is Physical and
Mathematical Nonsense" Creation Research Society Quarterly. June
1972, pp. 6, 9.
46 Ibid., p. 10.
47 Ibid, p. 12.
48 Carl Sagan, Intelligent Life in the Universe (London: Picador,
Pan Books, Ltd., 1977) p. 358.
49 Christianus Huygenus [Dutch physicist], New Conjectures
Concerning the Planetary Worlds, Their Inhabitants and Productions
cited by Carl Sagan in Intelligent Life in the Universe, p. 214.
50 Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, p. 252.
51 Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, p. 260.
52 Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, p. 342.
53 Charles Darwin and quoted in David Raup, "Conflicts Between
Darwin and Paleontology," Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin,
22 and 23.
54 Thomas Huxley in his three lectures on Evolution, p. 619.
55 Theodosius Dobzhansky, American Science, 45:388, 1957.
56 Niles Eldredge and I. Tattersall, The Myths of Human
Evolution, pp. 45-46.
57 Stephen Jay Gould, "The Return of Hopeful Monsters," Natural
History, June-July, 1977, pp. 22, 24.
58 George Gaylord Simpson, The Major Features of Evolution, p.
360.
59 Donn Rosen, "Evolution: An Old Debate With a New Twist," in
St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 17, 1981, quoted by James E. Adams.
60 Dr. Austin Clark, "Animal Evolution," 3-Quarterly Review of
Biology, 5-23, 539.
61 Dr. Betty Farber, Entomologist with the American Museum of
Natural History. Quoted by M. Kusinitz, Science World, 4, February,
1983, pp. 12-19.
62 L. Harrison Matthews, The Introduction to Charles Darwin’s
Origin of the Species (London: Dent Publishers, 1959) p. 11.
63 Pierre P. Grasse, Evolution of Living Organisms (New York:
Academic, 1977), p. 30.
64 Louis L. Carroll, "Problems of the Origin of Reptiles,"
Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Soc., #44, 1969,
p. 393.
65 Jean L. Marx, "The Oldest Fossil Bird: A Rival for
Archaeopteryx?" Science Magazine, 199, January 20, 1978, p. 284.
66 Charles Darwin in a letter to Hooker found in the book The
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 3 volumes, John Murray, London,
Vol. 3, p. 248.
67 Gerald T. Todd, "Evolution of the Lung and the Origin of Bony
Fishes—A Causal Relationship," The American Zoologist, #4, 1980, p.
757.
68 Julian Huxley, Evolution in Action (New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1953), pp. 45-46.
69 Stated by Robert Barnes, Invertebrate Beginnings in "Paleobiology,"
6:365-70.
70 Colin Patterson in a letter to Luther D. Sunderland, April 10,
1979, cited by William J. Guste, Jr. in the Plaintiff’s Pre-Trial
Brief for a recent Louisiana Trial on Creation and Evolution, June
3, 1982.
71 David Raup and Steven N. Stanley, Principles of Paleontology,
p. 306.
72 George Gaylord Simpson at the Darwin Centenary Symposium held
in Chicago in 1959. This is also stated in Simpson’s book The
Evolution of Life in the Chapter "The History of Life," The
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Pages 117-180: published in
1960. Specifically see page 135.
73 Steven N. Stanley, Macro-Evolution (San Francisco: W. H.
Freeman and Co., 1979), p. 2.
74 Stephen Jay Gould, "The Five Kingdoms," Natural History,
June-July, 1976, pp. 30, 37.
75 Stated British Museum (Natural History), Man’s Place in
Evolution. 2nd ed. (Cambridge, England: New York, N.Y., USA:
Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 20.
76 Steven N. Stanley, The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils,
Genes, and the Origin of Species, (New York: Basic Books, Inc.,
1981), from the Preface, p. XV.
77 This was an article in the British newspaper "The Guardian
Weekly," November 26, 1978, Vol. 119, #22, page 1 of an interview
with Niles Eldredge. The headline of the article was entitled
"Missing, Believed Nonexistent."
78 Stephen Jay Gould, "Evolution’s Erratic Pace," Natural History
86, May, 1977, p. 12.
79 Ibid., p. 14.
80 Frederick Nietzsche, Anti-Christ in The Portable Nietzsche
(New York: Viking Press, 1968), p. 627.
81 The Secular Humanist lawyer Clarence Darrow argued this at the
Scopes Trial of 1925.
82 Norman Geisler, Creator in the Courtroom: Scopes 2 (Milford,
MI: Mott Media, 1987), p. 203.
83 Michael Denton, Evolution, a Theory in Crisis, p. 358.
84 Stated by Sir Peter Medawar in his opening remarks as chairman
of a symposium entitled "Mathematical Challenges to the
Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution" held April 25 and 26,
1966 at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia.
85 Lipson, "A Physicist Looks at Evolution," Physics Bulletin,
138, 1980.
86 Norman Geisler, Systematic Theology, Volume Two: God, Creation
(Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2003), p. 468-73.
87 See Ross, CT. Geisler, Ibid., p. 637-644.
88 Dr. Fuz Rana, Richard Deem, Dr. Hugh Ross, "A Scientific and
Biblical Response To: ‘Up from the Apes. Remarkable New Evidence Is
Filling in the Story of How We Became Human’" Time, August 23, 1999.
89 Hugh Ross, The Fingerprint of God, 2nd Edition (Orange, CA:
Promise Publishing Co., 1991).
90 Hugh Ross, "Big Bang Model Refined by Fire" in Mere Creation.
Science, Faith & Intelligent Design, William A. Dembski, Editor
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1998), pp. 363-384.
91 Hugh Ross, The Fingerprint of God, 2nd Edition (Orange, CA:
Promise Publishing Co., 1991), pp.61-105.
92 [Kenneth R. Samples, "The Historic Alliance of Christianity
and Science," Facts & Faith, v. 12, n. 5, (1998), pp. 8-9; Nancy R.
Pearcey and Charles B. Thaxton, The Soul of Science. Christian Faith
and Natural Philosophy (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1994).
93 Dr. Fuz Rana, Richard Deem, Dr. Hugh Ross, "A Scientific and
Biblical Response To: ‘Up from the Apes. Remarkable New Evidence Is
Filling in the Story of How We Became Human’" Time, August 23,
1999..
94 George Gamow, "Expanding Universe and the Origin of the
Elements," Physical Review70 (1946): 572-73.
95 George Gamow, "Expanding Universe and the Origin of the
Elements," Physical Review70 (1946): 572-73.
96 Edwin Hubble, "A Relation Between Distance and Radial Velocity
Among Extra-Galactic Nebulae," Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences 15 (1929): 168-73.
97 Georges Lemaître, "A Homogeneous Universe of Constant Mass and
Increasing Radius Accounting for the Radial Velocity of
Extra-Galactic Nebulae," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society91 (1931): 483-90. The original paper appears in French in
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98 Albert Einstein, "Die Grundlage der allgemeinen
Relativitätstheorie," Annalen der Physik49 (1916): 769-822. The
English translation is in The Principle of Relativity by H. A.
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Methuen and Co., 1923), 109-64.
99 Albert Einstein, "Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen
Relativitätstheorie," Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussichen
Akademie der Wissenschaften(1917), Feb. 8, 142-52. The English
translation is in The Principle of Relativity, 175-88.
100 R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke,
Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Vol. 1 (Chicago: Moody,
1980), 127.
101 Harris, Archer, and Waltke, vol. 2, 916.
102 Harris, Archer, and Waltke, 935.
103 Hugh Ross, John Rae, "Big Bang—The Bible Taught It First!"
from www.reasons.org. Used by permission.
104 Mary-Claire King and A. C. Wilson, "Evolution at Two Levels
in Human and Chimpanzees," Science, 188 (1975), pp. 107-116.
