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<p>(The purpose of this page is to present quotations from scientists that
illustrate their recognition that the darwinian theory of evolution is
bad science.)
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<p><b><font size=+3>Interesting Quotations from Scientists on Evolutionism</font></b></center>
<p><font size=+1><i>Here are some of our favorite quotes by scientists
speaking on the subject of evolutionism. Note that many of these scientists
are evolutionists themselves, in spite of their comments. I suppose that
they would maintain that to admit that "God did it" would not be "intellectually
satisfying!" Such a confession, of course, flies in the face of their naturalistic
presuppositionalism.
<hr></i>"Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not
founded on observation and wholly unsupported by facts. This museum is
full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views. In all this great museum,
there is not a particle of evidence of the transmutation of species." <i>(Dr.
Etheridge, Paleontologist of the British Museum)
<hr></i>"I reject evolution because I deem it obsolete; because the knowledge,
hard won since 1830, of anatomy, histology, cytology, and embryology, cannot
be made to accord with its basic idea. The foundationless, fantastic edifice
of the evolution doctrine would long ago have met with its long- deserved
fate were it not that the love of fairy tales is so deep-rooted in the
hearts of man." <i>(Dr. Albert Fleischmann, University of Erlangen)
<hr></i>"By the late 1970s, debates on university campuses throughout the
free world were being held on the subject of origins with increasing frequency.
Hundreds of scientists, who once accepted the theory of evolution as fact,
were abandoning ship and claiming that the scientific evidence was in total
support of the theory of creation. Well-known evolutionists, such as Isaac
Asimov and Stephen Jay Gould, were stating that, since the creationist
scientists had won all of the more than one hundred debates, the evolutionists
should not debate them." <i>(Luther Sunderland, "Darwin's Enigma", p.10)
<hr></i>"The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes
that evolution is based on faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith
which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion...
The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be
true, but is irrational."<i> (Dr. L.T. More)
<hr></i>"I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable
scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme... <i>(Dr. Karl
Popper, German-born philosopher of science, called by Nobel Prize-winner
Peter Medawar, "incomparably the greatest philosopher of science who has
ever lived.")
<hr></i>"The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology
is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved
theory -- is it then a science or faith? Belief in the theory of evolution
is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation..."<i> (Dr. L. Harrison
Matthews, in the introduction to the 1971 edition of Darwin's "Origin of
Species")
<hr></i>"What is so frustrating for our present purpose is that it seems
almost impossible to give any numerical value to the probability of what
seems a rather unlikely sequence of events... An honest man, armed with
all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense,
the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle... <i>(Dr.
Francis Crick, Nobel Prize-winner, codiscoverer of DNA)
<hr></i>"Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating
at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible
to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends,
are in every respect DELIBERATE... It is therefore, almost inevitable that
our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligences.. even
to the limit of God." <i>(Sir Fred Hoyle, British mathematician and astronomer,
and Chandra Wickramasinghe, co-authors of "Evolution from Space," after
acknowledging that they had been atheists all their lives)
<hr></i>"The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way
is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard
might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein... I am at a loss
to understand biologists' widespread compulsion to deny what seems to me
to be obvious."<i> (Sir Fred Hoyle)
<hr></i>"I don't know how long it is going to be before astronomers generally
recognize that the combinatorial arrangement of not even one among the
many thousands of biopolymers on which life depends could have been arrived
at by natural processes here on the earth. Astronomers will have a little
difficulty in understanding this because they will be assured by biologists
that it is not so, the biologists having been assured in their turn by
others that it is not so. The 'others' are a group of persons who believe,
quite openly, in mathematical miracles. They advocate the belief that tucked
away in nature, outside of normal physics, there is a law which performs
miracles (provided the miracles are in the aid of biology). This curious
situation sits oddly on a profession that for long has been dedicated to
coming up with logical explanations of biblical miracles... It is quite
otherwise, however, with the modern miracle workers, who are always to
be found living in the twilight fringes of thermodynamics." <i>(Sir Fred
Hoyle)</i></font>
<p><i><font size=+1>(These "mathematical miracles" that must have occurred
are summarized in my paper<a href="2ndlaw-fs.html" TARGET="_top"> "The
Second Law of Thermodynamics and Evolution"</a>)
<hr></font></i><font size=+1>"The fossil record with its abrupt transitions
offers no support for gradual change..." <i>(Dr. Stephen Jay Gould, famous
Harvard Professor of Paleontology)
<hr></i>"I admit that an awful lot of that has gotten into the textbooks
as though it were true. For instance, the most famous example still on
exhibit downstairs (in the American Museum) is the exhibit on horse evolution
prepared perhaps 50 years ago. That has been presented as literal truth
in textbook after textbook. Now I think that that is lamentable, particularly
because the people who propose these kinds of stories themselves may be
aware of the speculative nature of some of the stuff. But by the time it
filters down to the textbooks, we've got science as truth and we've got
a problem."<i> (Dr. Niles Eldridge, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology
at the American Museum)
<hr></i>"The fundamental reason why a lot of paleontologists don't care
much for gradualism is because the fossil record doesn't show gradual change
and every paleontologist has know that ever since Cuvier. If you want to
get around that you have to invoke the imperfection of the fossil record.
Every paleontologist knows that most species, most species, don't change.
That's bothersome if you are trained to believe that evolution ought to
be gradual. In fact it virtually precludes your studying the very process
you went into the school to study. Again, because you don't see it, that
brings terrible distress."<i> (Dr. Stephen Jay Gould)
<hr></i>"To postulate that the development and survival of the fittest
is entirely a consequence of chance mutations seems to me a hypothesis
based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts. These classical
evolutionary theories are a gross over-simplification of an immensely complex
and intricate mass of facts, and it amazes me that they are swallowed so
uncritically and readily, and for such a long time, by so many scientists
without murmur of protest."
<i>(Sir Ernest Chain, Nobel Prize winner)
<hr></i>"Evolution is a theory universally accepted, not because it can
be proved to be true, but because the only alternative, 'special creation,'
is clearly impossible."<i> (D.M.S. Watson, Professor of Zoology, London
University)</i></font>
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