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Louis Agassiz (1807–73) Professor of Zoology and Geology at Harvard Web LoC GBS
Far from having been drawn to the Darwinian Theory, all my studies and all my experience thus far has led me in the opposite direction. Letter to Fritz Muller January 17, 1864
It is not true that a slight variation among the successive offspring of the same stock, goes on increasing until the difference amounts to a specific distinction. On the contrary, it is a matter of fact that extreme variations finally degenerate or become sterile; like monstrosities they die out, or return to their type. "Evolution and Permanence of Type" The Atlantic Monthly January 1874
Thomas Aquinas (1225–74) Web Amazon GBS
We see that things which lack intelligence, such as natural bodies, act for an end, and this is evident from their acting always, or nearly always, in the same way, so as to obtain the best result. Hence it is plain that not fortuitously, but designedly, do they achieve their end. Now whatever lacks intelligence cannot move towards an end, unless it be directed by some being endowed with knowledge and intelligence; as the arrow is shot to its mark by the archer. Therefore some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call God. Summa Theologiae q. 2, art. 3
Augustine (354–430) Web Amazon GBS
They are deceived, too, by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years, though, reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not 6000 years have yet passed. City of God 12.10
And therefore God created only one single man, not, certainly, that he might to be a solitary, bereft of all society, but that by this means the unity of society and the bond of concord might be more effectually commended to him, men being bound together not only by similarity of nature, but by family affection. And indeed He did not even create woman that was to be given him as his wife as he created the man, but created her out of the man, that the whole human race might derive from one man. City of God 12.21
For though God formed man of the dust of the earth, yet the earth itself, and every earthly material, is absolutely created out of nothing: and man’s soul, too, God created out of nothing, and joined to the body, when He made man. City of God 14.11
Whoever takes another meaning out of Scripture than the writer intended, goes astray, but not through any falsehood in Scripture. On Christian Doctrine 1.41
Nothing is to be accepted save on the authority of Scripture, since greater is that authority than all the powers of the human mind. Commentary on the Book of Genesis
see also: The Literal Interpretation of Genesis
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