“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).
The Real Issue
“But if [God]—approximately six thousand years ago, give or take a couple of weeks—made the aardvarks and anteaters, and little yellow canaries, and giraffes, and koala bears, pretty much as we see them today, then we have to come to grips [with the fact] that we are living in a place designed for us, and …
Because Boots Are Intelligently Designed
“But it is He that has made us and not we ourselves. We did not, and could not have, fetched ourselves out of the primordial slime by lifting ourselves by our own bootstraps. Amoebae don’t have boots, for starters. Moreover, they never did” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 26).
On Whom All Other Facts Depend
“God is the absolute fact” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 24).
One or the Other
“Either time and chance acting on matter is the ultimate reality, or the cosmos is contingent and created, and it is here because God put it here” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 21).
Davidson
“According to His human nature, Jesus was a Davidson. He would have been found in the phone book under the D’s” (Mere Fundamentalism, pp. 19-20).
A Triune Unity
“Another way of thinking of this, a way suggested to us in the Scriptures, though not as common, is to think of God the Speaker, God the Spoken, and God the Interpretation” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 19).
Our Older Brother Always
“The life of Jesus on earth was not an instance of God temporarily slumming on earth. No, when Christ took on human nature, He did so permanently. And the resurrection was the seal on that permanence” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 18).