Creation Revolution

Category: Quote of the Week

• Noah Webster on the Necessity of Private Morality in Public Officials and the Presidency:

  [A]ll history is a witness of the truth of the principle that good morals are essential to the faithful and upright discharge of public functions. The moral character of a man is an entire and indivisible thing—it cannot be pure … Continue reading →

  

• Adolf Hitler on Gun Control

  “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. … Continue reading →

  

• Norman Macbeth on Darwinism

  “Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed.”   Norman Macbeth, … Continue reading →

  

• Samuel Adams on Vices and Virtue for America

  Therefore “Wise and able Politicians will guard against other Vices,” and be attentive to promote every Virtue. He who is void of virtuous Attachments in private Life, is, or very soon will be void of all Regard for his Country. … Continue reading →

  

• Abigail Adams on a Patriot Without Religion

  A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?  Can … Continue reading →

  

• L.Harrison Matthews on Evolution as a Religion

   “The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory-is it then a science or faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus … Continue reading →

  

• Noah Webster on the Moral Character of Political Candidates

  In every nation, a disregard of the moral character of a candidate for office, has accompanied the progress of national decline, and been the prelude to great public calamities, or total destruction…all history is a witness of the truth of … Continue reading →

  

• H. S. Lipson on the Origin of Life

  “If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms, natural forces and radiation, how has it come into being? … I think, however, that we must go further than this and admit that the only acceptable explanation … Continue reading →

  

• Daniel Webster on America’s Destruction

  “I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe . . . Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their … Continue reading →

  

• Samuel Adams on Filling the Seats of Government

  If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honor of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men … Continue reading →

  

• Sir James Hopwood Jeans on the Origin of the Universe

  Everything points with overwhelming force to a definite event, or series of events of creation at some time or times, not infinitely remote. The universe cannot have originated by chance out of its present ingredients, and neither can it have … Continue reading →

  

• Sir William Blackstone on the Law

  “Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being…. And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should, in … Continue reading →

  

• Richard B. Goldschmidt on Microevolution

  “Microevolution does not lead beyond the confines of the species, and the typical products of microevolution, the geographic races, are not incipient species. There is no such category as incipient species.”   Richard B. Goldschmidt, The Material Basis of Evolution … Continue reading →

  

• Samuel Adams on Principles, Manners and Virtue

  A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then … Continue reading →

  

• Gareth V. Nelson on the Assumption of Ancestry

  “That a known fossil or recent species, or higher taxonomic group, however primitive it might appear, is an actual ancestor of some other species or group, is an assumption scientifically unjustifiable, for science never can simply assume that which it … Continue reading →