If we are to understand the nature of reality, we have only two possible starting points: either the brute fact of the physical world or the brute fact of a divine will and purpose behind that physical world.John Polkinghorne
I see no reason for attributing to man a significance different in kind from that which belongs to a baboon or a grain of sand. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The world of sense intrudes upon our attention day and night for the whole of our lifetime. It is clamorous, insistent and self-demonstrating. It does not appeal to our faith; it is here, assaulting our five senses, demanding to be accepted as real and final.
Critiques of Sailhamer's position.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v14/i3/rules.asp
http://www.mctsowensboro.org/mcts-blog/piper-sailhamer-and-creationism/
