“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34).

“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3).

The word here for “foundations” is not the usual word for, say, a building foundation. Used rarely, a better translation of this word would be “purpose,” or “basis.” The fear expressed is not that the foundations of our faith might be undermined, but that we might lose our sense of purpose.

“For I delight in the law of God after the inward man” (Romans 7:22).

Evolutionary scientists like to picture themselves to the public as paragons of rational thought—cool, detached, careful observers and analyzers of the systems and processes of nature. Creationists on the other hand are pictured as ignorant, bigoted religionists, bent on destroying science in favor of ancient mythology.

“But it came to pass that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews” (Nehemiah 4:1).