“Once people accepted the false notion that the earth was older than 6,000-years, regardless of how they justified it with the plain teachings of Scripture, the door was open for acceptance of the evolution theory, which became popular in 1859 after Darwin published his book, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, of the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.” It’s been downhill ever since!”

—  Kent Hovind

Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), pp. 34-35

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American young Earth creationist 1953

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“To many, this doctrine of Natural Selection, or 'the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life,' seems so simple, when once clearly stated, and so consonant with known facts and received principles, that they have difficulty in conceiving how it can constitute a great step in the progress of science.”

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Source: The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (1863), Ch.21, p. 417
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