Meyer notes how the fossil record does not support the Darwinian tree of life:

[T]he fossil record amply documents organism corresponding to the terminal branches on the Darwinian tree of life (animal forms representing new phyla or classes, for example), but it fails to preserve those organisms representing the internal branches or nodes leading to these representatives of novel phyla and classes of Cambrian-era animals. Yet these intermediates are the very forms required to connect the terminal branches to form a coherent evolutionary tree and establish that the representatives of the Cambrian animals did arise by means of a gradual evolutionary process from simpler Precambrian ancestors.

Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design. New York, NY: HarperOne. 2014, p. 69.

Behe notes:

No one mistakes the results of gravitational attraction for that of a mind making a choice. The same for natural selection. It will favor the increase in the number of organisms that do better in their environment for any reason, regardless of the basis for the variation. Selection is as unaware of whether a change in an organism helps in the present but hurts in the long run as, say, gravity is indifferent to the fate of a reckless competitive skier going much faster than other, caution, contestants on a treacherous slope. No one should mistake the action of natural selection for that of a mind making a choice.

Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA that Challenges Evolution. New York, NY: HarperOne. 2019, p. 203.

Smith writes:

Our idolatries are less like conscious decisions to believe a falsehood and more like learned dispositions to hope in what will disappoint.

On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press. 2019, p. 82.

Smith writes:

But I'm still awaiting a "final" freedom, when the vestiges of my old will are eviscerated, and there are no more mornings when I wake up hating myself, ashamed, even if I "know" I'm forgiven. That grace has already broken in like a dawn; I'm waiting for the splendor of its noontide light that never ends and for the shadows of my old self to dissolve.

On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press. 2019, p. 72.

Contrary to what I was taught, Merkle correctly states:

The idea, then, is not that the aorist tense-form is pinpointing a particular time in history but that is is portraying the action in its entirety without regard to the process or time it took to accomplish this action.

Exegetical Gems from Biblical Greek: A Refreshing Guide to Grammar and Interpretation. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. 2019, p. 74.

Behe, a biochemist, writes:

With surpassing irony it turns out that, as with the polar bear, Darwinian evolution proceeds mainly by damaging or breaking genes, which, counterintuitively, sometimes helps survival. In other words, the mechanism is powerfully devolutionary. It promotes the rapid loss of genetic information.

Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA that Challenges Evolution. New York, NY: HarperOne. 2019, p. 37.