"One of the more troubling aspects of the contemporary debate
over evolution is the largely unargued presumption that critics of evolution must be motivated by religion, whereas defenders of evolution are supposedly the disinterested pursuers of truth. Yet evolutionary biologists are human beings just like everyone else, which means that they are subject to the same influences of passion, pride, and even prejudice. If scientists start to dismiss their colleague's work based solely on motivation... not much would be left of science."
— John West, Darwin Day in America, p. 244
over evolution is the largely unargued presumption that critics of evolution must be motivated by religion, whereas defenders of evolution are supposedly the disinterested pursuers of truth. Yet evolutionary biologists are human beings just like everyone else, which means that they are subject to the same influences of passion, pride, and even prejudice. If scientists start to dismiss their colleague's work based solely on motivation... not much would be left of science."
— John West, Darwin Day in America, p. 244
Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Psalm 90:2