THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSALITY

Does deep insight, great clear rational thinking, great courage, great duty, great faith, great love demonstrate the priority of nothing? It is prepos­terous to argue that the most profound thoughts, sentiments and actions of man argue the priority of nothing.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES IN THE MIND OF A CHILD

Proverbs 22:6: Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE SHOULD BE BASED ON REASON

One should never retreat from reason. One should use reason, and use it accurately and aggressively. A faith which is not preceded by reason is a weak faith and is vulnerable to devastating attacks and to subversion.

OF FLOWERS AND THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE (C. 1958)

Unfortunately, increase in factual knowl­edge has not resulted in greater recognition of God. Rather it seems that man has felt that by explaining something he has eliminated the need for a God.

CONCORD BETWEEN SCIENCE AND FAITH (C. 1958)

Once the scientist has exercised faith in the Creator of the universe this faith can only grow as a result of his or her studies.

LABORATORY LESSONS (C. 1958)

The Bible is proved scientifically accurate, even in its many small details …

MAN HIMSELF AS EVIDENCE (C. 1958)

I believe in God because He has given me moral judgment … Though our ideas may differ, we argue for our “rights” and assume that fairness and justice are not meaning­less words to our adversaries.

SOILS, PLANTS, AND A 4000-YEAR-OLD EXPLANATION (C. 1958)

Jesus was a first-rate Agriculturist.

WONDERS OF THE SOIL (C. 1958)

The soil is a world of wonders all by itself, but only scien­tific study brings that out.

THE UNIVERSE UNDER CENTRAL CONTROL (C. 1958)

Popular conceptions are often misleading. It is, for instance, generally believed that science is like a brilliant and talkative old man who knows all the answers. Instead, science is like a young man who asks a lot of questions. He does much thinking and pondering. He attempts to keep careful, classified notes. The typical scientist is never satisfied that he has the final truth on anything at all.

CHEMICAL LAWS AND GOD (CIRCA 1958)

What is the directing force that underlies the laws of statistics? When one applies the laws of chance to the proba­bility of an event occurring in Nature, such as the formation of a single protein molecule from the elements, even if we allow three billion years for the age of the earth or more, there isn’t enough time for the event to occur. Only by postulating a directional Force with a purposeful end can we account for the harmony and order which have come from chaos.

A LOOK BEHIND THE “NATURAL LAWS” (C. 1958)

If the brightest scientific minds through the centuries have studied to learn, by observations of great complexity, the existence and behavior of the various entities, it must follow that the intelli­gence of the One who designed these in the first place sur­passes the integrated value of human intelligence to date.

SCHOLARLY WITNESSES AND A FEW OBSERVATIONS (C. 1958)

[Natural] laws are of higher origin than the universe in which they operate. There is, to my ordinary, common-sense mind, but one plausible answer, and that is that these laws demand belief in a Lawgiver, which I again call God.

THE GREAT DESIGNER (C. 1958)

The most funda­mental rational reason for my belief in God is one which has been greatly bolstered by my engineering experience. Modern physics shows me that Nature is unable to order herself.

GEOLOGICAL DIRECTIVES (C. 1958)

The conclusion that the universe had a beginning is in accord with the simple Scriptural statement, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” as well as being strongly supported by thermodynamic, astronomic and geologic data.