1. Miller-Urey experiment
2. Darwin’s tree of life (see: great chain of being)
3. Haeckel’s embryo drawings (Ѻ)
4. The missing link | Archaeopteryx (Ѻ)

See main: Kanawha County textbook controversy

Strobel: “Why are you so enraged over the new school textbooks?”

Businessman: “Listen to what Dynamics of Language tells our kids. To quote: ‘Read the theory of divine origin and the story of the Tower of Babel as told in Genesis. Be prepared to explain one or more ways these stories could be interpreted.’ [tossing a well-worn clipping on the table] The theory of divine origin! The word of god is not a theory. Take god out of creation and what’s left? Evolution? Scientists want to teach our kids that divine origin is just a theory that stupid people believe but that evolution is a scientific fact. Well, it’s not. And that’s at the bottom of this.”

Strobel: “Are you saying Charles Darwin is responsible for this?”

Businessman: “Let me put it this way: If Darwin’s right, we’re just sophisticated monkeys. The Bible is wrong. There is no god. And without god, there’s no right or wrong. We can just make up our morals as we go. The basis for all we believe is destroyed. And that’s why this country is headed to hell in a handbasket. Is Darwin responsible? I’ll say this: people have to choose between science and faith, between evolution and the Bible, between the Ten Commandments and make-‘em-up-as-you-go ethics. We’ve made our choice—and we’re not budging.”

Businessman: [taking a swig of beer] “Have you seen the teacher’s manual?”

Strobel: No.

Businessman: “It says students should compare the Bible story of Daniel in the Lion’s Den to that [slave and the thorn in the lion’s paw] myth

Strobel: “Androcles and the Lion?” (Ѻ) [from Aesop’s fable]

Businessman: “Yeah, that’s the one. [wagging a french fry at Strobel] What does it tell our kids when they’re supposed to compare that to the Bible? That the Bible is just a bunch of fairy tales? That it’s all myth? That you can interpret the Bible any way you darn please, even if it rips the guts out of what it really says?”

Businessman: “We’ve got to put our foot down. I’m not going to let a bunch of eggheads destroy the faith of my children.”

“I lost 5 IQ points reading Strobel's book, which was nothing more than mindless propaganda.”

— Anon (2003), commentary on Strobel’s The Case For Christ (Ѻ)

“By coupling undirected, purposeless variation to the blind, uncaring process of natural selection, Darwin made theological or spiritual explanations of life processes superfluous.”

— Futuyma Douglas (1986), Evolutionary Biology; cited by Strobel (2004) in The Case for a Creator (pg. 25) [1]

“You can’t put an omnipotent deity in a test tube.”

— Eugenie Scott (1994), “Keep Science Free From Creationism”; cited by Strobel (2004) in The Case for a Creator (pg. 21) [2]

“Is there an intellectually honest Christian evolutionist position? Or do we simply have to check our brains at the church house door?”

— Anon (c.1997), query to The Scientist from a San Antonio attorney; cited by Lee Strobel (2004) in The Case for a Creator (pg. #)

“Ethics lie outside the province of science. Science doesn’t make ethical judgments.”

— William Craig (c.2003), “Interview with Lee Strobel” [1]

“Christians … hadn’t they heard, as one skeptic famously put it, that modern science had already dissolved Christianity in a vat of nitric acid.”

— Lee Strobel (2004), reflective monologue, with reference to the Ludwig Feuerbach nitric acid prophecy, on being sent in 1974 to report on the West Virginia hillbilly bombings and shootings over certain non-Christianity conforming textbooks being used in public schools [1]