Week of Quotes Part 2

In the spirit of yesterday's post, I provide you today with G.K. Chesterton. With simple and logical thought, Chesterton challenges the philosophy of naturalism. Ultimately, naturalism is a philosophy more than it is a science. No one has proven how life began or evolved across species, they have only postulated it's likelihood (or lack thereof). And with that lack of proof, Darwinism is buttressed more by philosophical presuppositions than proof. Chesterton takes aim at those presuppositions:

"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even if you only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature a name of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he could create one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else; just as many of them live under the sort of illusion that they have read the Origin of Species."

G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man