Arthur Keith (1866 – 1955) was a leading figure in the study of human fossils and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. However, his credibility is somewhat shot through given this most unscientific and irrational statement:
Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.
Sir John Eccles (1903 – 1977) was a Nobel laureate in neurophysiology who said, in a lecture in Chicago in January 1968, that the odds against the right combination of circumstances occurring to evolve intelligent life on earth were about four hundred thousand trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion to one. He said it was fantastically improbable. Then he spoiled it by saying that despite those fantastical odds – he believed that that’s what happened.
What those two statements from learned and intelligent men prove is that some people will believe anything rather than the simple truth of God’s word.
Scripture is unambiguously clear. Everything that exists came into being, not as a result of a slow and gradual process of evolutionary development that took millions of decades, but instantaneously, at the command of God, out of nothing (ex nihilo), and the whole job was done in the space of 6 days – 6 periods of 24 hours.
It takes fare more faith to believe that everything that exists just happened by chance or as the result of something that went bang.
By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. (Hebrews 11:3)