Living organisms were not independently created, but have descended and diversified over time from common ancestors. And thus, no other biological theory so elegantly explains this. Evolutionary theory has withstood the test of time – by way of vicarious experimentation, observation, analysis, and relentless criticism, though opposing viewpoints still cling to the concept of design. As a person of the biological sciences, I cannot subscribe to such misguided notions that suggest static biological states. Clearly, proper examination of the natural world reveal evolutionary trajectories – some random, others non-random – and all having observable genetic implications. It is only when we apply evolutionary explanations to living systems that it becomes ever so clear. The world was not specifically designed with us in mind, but rather we long since adapted and conformed to our surroundings, only giving it the illusionary appearance of design. Tommy Rodriguez, Diaries of Dissension: A Case Against the Irrational and Absurd
If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths? Dara Ó’Briain
You own a watch the invention of the mind,
Though for a single motion ’tis designed,
As well as that which is with greater thought
With various springs, for various motions wrought. Richard Blackmore, The Creation III, 1712
As if some lesser God had made the world,
And had not force to shape it as he would. Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur
One way or another, Darwinists meet the question, Is Darwinism true? With an answer that amounts to an assertion of power: ‘Well, it is science, as we define science, and you will have to be content with that’. Some of us are not content with that, because we know that the empirical evidence for the creative power of natural selection is somewhere between weak and non-existent. Artificial selection of fruit flies or domestic animals produces limited change within the species, but tells us nothing about how insects and mammals came into existence in the first place. In any case, whatever artificial selection achieves is due to the employment of human intelligence consciously pursuing a goal. The whole point of the blind watchmaker thesis, however, is to establish what material processes can do in the absence of purpose and intelligence. That Darwinist authorities continually overlook this crucial distinction gives us little confidence in their objectivity. Philip E Johnson
The intelligent-design movement is an effort to introduce creationism into the schools under a different name. Eric Rothschild, witness Kitzmiller v Dover Area School District, 2005
Empirical claims of the contemporary American Creation Science or Intelligent Design (ID) theory, which postulates a Creator of nature, are, just as the earlier theological argument from design, based on a mistaken, ‘creationist’ view of human artifacts. Such view attributes functionality and complexity in an artifact to a singular human designer. The attribution aims at supporting an analogy between products of human designers, and the design-like adaptations found in nature, allegedly pointing to a supernatural Designer. The creationist view of artifacts, however, has been in conflict with conclusions of design history and history of technology alike: neither of them sees the functionality and complexity in artifacts as products of design but rather as results of re-design. Ironically, the evolutionary biologists, who fiercely oppose the creationist view of nature in ID proponents and defend the Darwinian understanding of the design-like adaptations as results of natural selection, tend to condone the creationist perspective on human artifacts characteristic for their opponents, and even seems to embrace it – thus forfeiting a crucial argument against the ID theory. Jan Michl, Without a Godlike Designer No Designerlike God September 2006
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in – fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!’ This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for. Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
Scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God’s actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture. Sheri S Tepper, The Fresco
A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question. Fred Hoyle
In 1788 a Scottish geologist named James Hutton ... proposed that the Earth was infinitely more ancient than humanity. Indeed, Hutton could find no evidence for there having been a creation at all. Tom Holland, Dinosaurs, Myths & Monsters, BBC 2015
Buckland was merely the first of many clergymen to wrestle with the implications. ibid.
If there were creator gods the world would be different. Another 50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God, Professor Jonathan Haidt
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Genesis 1:1&3&5
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. Genesis 1:6&8
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the evening and the morning were the third day. Genesis 1:9&11&13
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Genesis 1:14&16&19
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. Genesis 1:20&23
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Genesis 1:24&27&31
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. Ecclesiastes 12:1
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse; for although they knew God they did not honour him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1:20-22
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Colossians 1:16
They deliberately ignore this fact: that by the word of God the heavens were created long ago, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water, through which the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. 2 Peter 3:3-6
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers – including even his power to revolt ... It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower. C S Lewis
The Anunnaki came to Earth many hundreds of thousands of years ago to mine gold. They needed the gold to put into their atmosphere to protect their planet ... They were developing genetic technology ... The two rulers of the Earth at that time were Enki and Enlil. Now, Enki and his partner Ninhursag were the Creator according to the Sumerian texts the Creators of man. Ian R Crane, lecture Glastonbury 2006, ‘Hidden Agenda’