America’s evolution-creation controversy is like a lawsuit over a probate estate. The evolutionists are “contesting the will” of the founding fathers of modern science, but so far they are only winning the estate’s furniture—as an example from Puritan New England will illustrate.

The October 31 sermon by Pastor Chuck Swindoll in Frisco, Texas, highlighted the life and work of Martin Luther, responsible in large part for the Protestant Reformation, of which all evangelicals are inheritors. Luther was convinced that the Roman church had drifted from the Scriptures—and thus into corruption—and that the common people desperately needed the Bible in their own language.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. — Mark Twain¹