Mapping the Origins Debate Quotes

“Paleontologists working from an evolutionary perspective frequently look for transitional fossils, while geologists working from a creationary perspective look for discrepancies in radiometric dating and cases of recent and rapid fossilization. Not unexpectedly, each finds what they are looking for and extrapolates from those cases to general principles they claim apply to every situation.”
― Gerald Rau, Mapping the Origins Debate: Six Models of the Beginning of Everything

“We also know that natural selection of an adapted species in a stable environment tends to select against the extremes, the very ones that would be necessary to effect any change in the species. Some of the statements made in textbooks and elsewhere in the origins debate do not take this into account and are therefore misleading.”
― Gerald Rau, Mapping the Origins Debate: Six Models of the Beginning of Everything

“Thus, YEC and NE are polar opposites, the former claiming that the Bible overrules scientific evidence, the latter that scientific evidence disproves the Bible.”
― Gerald Rau, Mapping the Origins Debate: Six Models of the Beginning of Everything

“This book presents the full range of possible models and demonstrates how our religious and philosophical presuppositions, rather than the evidence, dictate our preference.”
― Gerald Rau, Mapping the Origins Debate: Six Models of the Beginning of Everything