The text of this article is only available as a PDF.
[Footnotes]
1 William J. Overton, "McLean vs. Arkansas Board of Education," court decision, 529 Federal Supplement 1255 (Eastern District of Arkansas 1982), available at http://cnsweb.bu.edu/pub/dorman/McLean_vs_Arkansas.html.
Niles Eldredge, The Triumph of Evolution...and the Failure of Creationism (N.Y.: W. H. Freeman, 2000), 93-94.
2 Jeffrey L. Sheler and Joannie M. Schroff, "The Creation," U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 23, 1991, p. 59, available at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/create.htm.
3 James Glanz, "Evolutionists Battle New Theory of Creation," New York Times, April 8, 2001, p.1, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/08/science/08DESI.html.
4 Survey of biology students at BYU, conducted by Prof. William Bradshaw of BYU, 2001.
5 Joseph Fielding McConkie, Answers: Straightforward Answers to Tough Gospel Questions, (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1998), 155-165.
6 Ellen G. White, Spiritual Gifts: Important Facts of Faith, in Connection with the History of Holy Men of Old (Battle Creek, Mich.: Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, Battle Creek, 1864), 90-91;
Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1993), 74.
7 Numbers, The Creationists, 76-77.
8 George McCready Price, The New Geology (Mountain View, Calif.: Pacific Press, 1923).
9 John C. Whitcomb, Jr., and Henry M. Morris, The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1961, reprinted 1998), xx, 118, 120, 174, 223, 232-33, 238, 273-75, 344-45, 473.
10 Henry M. Morris, Scientific Creationism (El Cajon, Calif.: Creation-Life Publishers, 1974; 2d ed., 1985; reprint, 2000), 38-46, 151-53.
11 Duane T. Gish, Evolution: The Fossils Say No! (El Cajon, Calif.: Creation-Life Publishers, 1973).
12 Sterling B. Talmage, Can Science Be Faith Promoting? (Salt Lake City: Blue Ribbon Books, 2001), 190-95.
13 Jeffrey E. Keller, "Discussion Continued: The Sequel to the Roberts /Smith /Talmage Affair," Dialogue 15 (Spring 1982): 79-94.
14 Talmage, Can Science Be Faith Promoting?, 181-89.
15 Richard Sherlock, "We Can See No Advantage to a Continuation of the Discussion: The Roberts/Smith/TalmageAffair," Dialogue 13 (Fall 1980), 63-78.
16 Joseph Fielding Smith, Man: His Origin and Destiny (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1954).
17 Talmage, Can Science Be Faith Promoting?, xlii;
Sterling M. McMurrin and L. Jackson Newell, Matters of Conscience (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996), 198.
18 Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2d ed. (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966).
19 Melvin A. Cook, Prehistory and Earth Models (London: Max Parrish, 1966);
Melvin A. Cook and M. Garfield Cook, Science and Mormonism (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1967).
20 Robert T. Pennock, Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism (Boston: MIT Press, 1999), 30.
21 Phillip E. Johnson, "The Church of Darwin," Wall Street Journal, Aug. 16, 1999, available at http://www.arn.org/docs/johnson/chofdarwin.htm.
22 Phillip E. Johnson, Darwin on Trial (Washington: Regnery Gateway, 1991), 75.
23 Michael J. Behe, Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (N.Y.: Free Press, 1996), 39.
24 David Foster, The Philosophical Scientists, (NY: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993);
Fred Hereen, Show Me God: What the Message from Space is Telling Us about God (Wheeling, 111.: Searchlight Publications, 1995), 94.
25 William A. Dembski, ’What Every Theologian Should Know about Creation, Evolution and Design," Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Transactions 3, no. 2 (1995): 15-21, available at http://www.origins.org/offices/dembski/docs/bd-theologn.html. See also Pennock, The Tower of Babel, 31.
26 Phillip E. Johnson, Defeating Darwinism (Downers Grove, 111.: InterVarsity Press, 1997), 92. See also Pennock, The Tower of Babel, 41.
27 Pennock, The Tower of Babel, 5.
28 Kenneth R. Miller, Finding Darwin s God: A Scientist s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (N.Y.: Cliff Street Books, 1999), 76.
29 Eldredge, The Triumph of Evolution, 103-109;
Miller, Finding Darwin’s God, 63-80;
Chris Stassen, "The Age of the Earth," 1997, available at http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-age-of-earth.html.
30 Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1981), 17.
31 Paul Davies, The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life (N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1999).
32 Eldredge, The Triumph of Evolution;
Miller, Finding Darwin’s God;
Pennock, The Tower of Babel.
33 Hans Peterson, "Cosmic Spherules and Meteoritic Dust," Scientific American 202 (Feb. 1960): 132.
34 Pennock, The Tower of Babel, 222.
35 Morns, Scientific Creationism, 151-53.
36 Howard J. Van Till, Davis A. Young, and Clarence Menninga, Science Held Hostage: What’s Wrong with Creation Science AND Evolutionism (Downers Grove, 111.: InterVarsity Press, 1988), 82.
Pennock, The Tower of Babel, 223.
37 Ronnie J. Hastings, "The Rise and Fall of the Paluxy Mantracks," Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 40, no. 3 (1988): 144-55.
38 Whitcomb and Morris, The Genesis Flood, 174;
Morris, Scientific Creationism, 122;
E1dredge, The Triumph of Evolution, 129;
Pennock, The Tower of Babel, 220.
39 Morris, Scientific Creationism, 38-46;
Pennock, The Tower of Babel, 47.
40 Eldredge, The Triumph of Evolution, 96-97;
Pennock, The Tower of Babel, 78-82;
Frank Steiger, "The Second Law of Thermodynamics, Evolution, and Probability/’ 1997, available at http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/thermo/probability.html.
41 Eldredge, The Triumph of Evolution, 120-34;
Miller, Finding Darwin’s God, 81-128, 264-65;
John N. Wilford, "Feathered Dinosaur Fossils Are Unearthed in China," New York Times, April 26, 2001, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/26/.science/26DINO.html. For a listing of many known transitional fossils,
Kathleen Hunt, "Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ," 1997, available at http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.html.
42 Eldredge, The Triumph of Evolution, 110-13.
43 Miller, Finding Darwin’s God, 50-53. For some recently reported speciations, see Darren E. Irwin, Staffan Bensch, and Trevor D. Price, "Speciation in a Ring," Nature 409 (Jan. 18, 2001): 333-37;
David B. Wake, "Speciation in the Round," Nature 409 (Jan. 18, 2001): 299-300;
Joseph Boxhorn, "Observed Instances of Speciation," 1995, available at http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html.
44 H. Allen Orr, "Darwin vs. Intelligent Design (Again)," Boston Review 21, no. 6 (1997), available at http://bostonreview.mit.edu/br21.6/orr.html. See also Pennock, Tower of Babel, 270.
45 Miller, Finding Darwin’s God, 129-64.
46 Foster, The Philosophical Scientists;
Hereen, Show Me God, 94;
Hoyle and Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space, 19;
Pennock, The Tower of Babel, 231;
David H. Bailey, "Evolution and Probability," Report of the National Center for Science Education 20, no. 4 (2001), available from http://www.dhbailey.com.
47 W. A. Bentley and W. J. Humphreys, Snow Crystals (N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1962).
48 Pennock, The Tower of Babel, 185-206.
49 Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1956), 3:188-90.
50 Journal of Discourses (London: Latter-day Saints Book Depot, 1873) 15:127.
51 James E. Talmage, "The Earth and Man," Tabernacle address, Aug. 9, 1931, published in pamphlet form by LDS church.
52 Times and Seasons 4:46.
53 D&C 93:33.
54 Journal of Discourses (London: Latter-day Saints Book Depot, 1872) 14:116;
Brigham H. Roberts, The Mormon Doctrine of Deity (1903; reprint, Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers, 1982), 95-114.
55 Journal of Discourses 15:127.
56 John A. Widtsoe, Joseph Smith as Scientist (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1908; reprint, 1964), 156.
57 Talmage, The Earth and Man, 1931.
58 Brigham H. Roberts, The Truth, the Way, the Life: An Elementary Treatise on Theology, ed. Stan Larson (1931; reprint, Salt Lake City: Smith Research Associates, 1994;
Provo, Utah: BYU Studies, 1994), 364.
59 David O. McKay diary, entries dated Jan. 7-8, 14, 27, 28, 1960, transcript in author’s possession.
60 Duane Jeffery, "Seers, Savants and Evolution: The Uncomfortable Interface," Dialogue 8 (Autumn 1974): 41-75;
Erich R. Paul, Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992).
61 Russell M. Nelson, "The Creation," Conference Report, April 2000.
62 Daniel H. Ludlow, ed., The Encyclopedia of Mormonism (N.Y.: Macmillan, 1992), 2:478.
63 Larry A. Witham, Where Darwin Meets the Bible, (NY: Oxford University Press, 2002): 176-77.
64 Whitcomb and Morris, The Genesis Flood, 233-39;
Morris, Scientific Creationism, 209-10.
65 D&C 93:36.
66 Miller, Finding Darwin’s God, 80.
67 Gary J. Bergera and Ronald Priddis, Brigham Young University: A House of Faith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1985), 131-71.
68 "Evolution and the Origin of Man," packet of information approved by BYU Board of Trustees, June 1992, compiled by William Evenson, available at http://www.frii.com/~allsop/eyring-1/faq/evolution/trusteesl992.html.
69 Talmage, Can Science Be Faith-Promoting?; Trent D. Stephens and D. Jeffrey Meldrum, Evolution and Mormonism: A Quest for Understanding (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001).
70 Pennock, The Tower of Babel, 39.
71 Sharon Begley and Marian Westley, "Science Finds God," Newsweek, July 20, 1998, 46, available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/newsweek/science_of_god/scienceofgod.htm.
72 Ian G. Barbour, Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997);
Paul Davies, The Accidental Universe (London: Cambridge University Press, 1982);
Davies, The Fifth Miracle;
Stephen Jay Gould, Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (N.Y.: Ballantine Publishing Group, 1999);
John F. Haught, God after Darwin: A Theology of Evolution (Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 2000);
John F. Haught, Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation (N.Y.: Paulist Press, 1995);
Miller, Finding Darwin’s God;
John Polkinghorne, Belief in God in an Age of Science (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998);
Michael Ruse, Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? The Relationship between Science and Religion (London: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
73 Davies, The Accidental Universe;
Davies, The Fifth Miracle.
74 Miller, Finding Darwin’s God, 17.
75 Haught, Science and Religion, 52;
Haught, God after Darwin, 31.
76 Haught, Science and Religion, 62.
77 Overton, "McLean vs. Arkansas."
78 Pennock, Tower of Babel, 275.
79 Matt. 12:39, 16:4;
Mark 8:12;
Luke 11:29.
copyright 2001 Dialogue Foundation
2001
Issue Section:
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
