“Sin is a glory failure” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 42).
A Glorious Promise
“The attempts to create a superman have not been few. We see it in the attempt by the antediluvians to breed immortals (Gen. 6), we see it in the ravings of Nietzsche, and we see it with modern unbelievers tinkering around with the human genome. In reply, God says—God has always said—that mankind shall be …
Mark the Design
“God did not create two men, and so homosexuality is excluded. He did not create Adam and three women, and so polygamy is excluded. A helper suitable to Adam was not found among the beasts, and so bestiality is excluded. He did not create two women, which rules out lesbianism. All such images would be …
How God Knits
“And so Adam was put into a deep sleep, into a deathlike coma, and God operated on him. One was broken into two, and the bloody rib was transformed into a woman. One was made into two in order that those two could, in a different manner, become one again. And after they became one …
With a Fine Grit
“In the first moments after matter and energy were created, the world was shapeless and needed to be molded, carved, and then sandpapered” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 35).
From Absolute Nuffin
“Creatio ex nihilo is a fancy way of saying creation from zip, zilch, nada, nuffin, and is therefore a foundational doctrine. On top of that it is an in-your-face doctrine. If we cannot deny it outright like some militant atheist, we would still like to background it somehow. The mists of antiquity are most convenient …
We Are Good at Concealing Our Helplessness
“Extended periods of time do not really solve the actual problem, but they do solve the apparent problem. The apparent problem is that we cannot account for all the staggering impossibilities assembling themselves into intricate organisms of exquisite design, and so we sweep our helplessness under the carpet of aeons” (Mere Fundamentalism, pp. 31-32).
Because God Didn’t Use Focus Groups
“One of the reasons we want millions of years to process everything is that we don’t want to deal with the raw sovereignty on display when God simply creates a male peacock—in a display not only of divine sovereignty but also of dubious taste. Completely overdone” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 31).
In Other Words, Way Ridonkulous
“There is no way to have law without a lawgiver, design without a designer, engineering without an engineer, creation without a Creator. And so they opt for the incredible hypothesis that the immense complexity that we call organic life managed to fall up the stairs, assembling itself as it went. The whole thing is beyond …
And Then Some
“The only problem with the phrase intelligent design is that it is one of history’s most grotesque understatements” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 26).