MYTH OF EVOLUTION - EVEN MORE SCIENTISTS SPEAK OUT! - 2
There are scientists all over the world who know that evolutionary theory is
bankrupt. Such men as *Charles Darwin, *Thomas and *Julian Huxley, and
*Steven Jay Gould have admitted it.
But you will not find these statements in the popular press. Such admissions
are only made to fellow professionals.
An asterisk ( * ) by a name indicates that person is not known to be a
creationist.
"Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's
argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history,
yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we
view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess
to study."-*Steven Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb (1982), pp. 181-182 [Harvard
professor and the leading evolutionary spokesman of the latter half of the
twentieth century].
"The problem of the origin of species has not advanced in the last 150
years. One hundred and fifty years have already passed during which it has
been said that the evolution of the species is a fact but, without giving
real proofs of it and without even a principle of explaining it. During the
last one hundred and fifty years of research that has been carried out along
this line [in order to prove the theory], there has been no discovery of
anything. It is simply a repetition in different ways of what Darwin said in
1859. This lack of results is unforgivable in a day when molecular biology
has really opened the veil covering the mystery of reproduction and heredity
. .
"Finally, there is only one attitude which is possible as I have just shown:
It consists in affirming that intelligence comes before life. Many people
will say this is not science, it is philosophy. The only thing I am
interested in is fact, and this conclusion comes out of an analysis and
observation of the facts."-*G. Salet, Hasard et Certitude: Le Transformisme
devant la Biologie Actuelle (1973), p. 331.
"The theories of evolution, with which our studious youth have been
deceived, constitute actually a dogma that all the world continues to teach;
but each, in his specialty, the zoologist or the botanist, ascertains that
none of the explanations furnished is adequate . . It results from this
summary, that the theory of evolution is impossible."-*P. Lemoine,
"Introduction: De L' Evolution?" Encyclopedie Francaise, Vol. 5 (1937), p.
6.
"Darwinism is a creed not only with scientists committed to document the
all-purpose role of natural selection. It is a creed with masses of people
who have at best a vague notion of the mechanism of evolution as proposed by
Darwin, let alone as further complicated by his successors. Clearly, the
appeal cannot be that of a scientific truth but of a philosophical belief
which is not difficult to identify. Darwinism is a belief in the
meaninglessness of existence."-*R. Kirk, "The Rediscovery of Creation," in
National Review, (May 27, 1983), p. 641.
"I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because
of its ability to account for any property of living beings (the long neck
of the giraffe, for example). I have therefore tried to see whether
biological discoveries over the last thirty years or so fit in with Darwin's
theory. I do not think that they do. To my mind, the theory does not stand
up at all."-*H. Lipson, "A Physicist Looks at Evolution," Physic Bulletin,
31 (1980), p. 138.
"Evolution is baseless and quite incredible."-*John Ambrose Fleming,
President, British Association for Advancement of Science, in The Unleashing
of Evolutionary Thought.
"Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As
a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are
suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called
hypotheses."-*Norman Macbeth, Darwin Retried (1971), p. 147.
"It is not the duty of science to defend the theory of evolution, and stick
by it to the bitter end-no matter which illogical and unsupported
conclusions it offers. On the contrary, it is expected that scientists
recognize the patently obvious impossibility of Darwin's pronouncements and
predictions . . Let's cut the umbilical cord that tied us down to Darwin for
such a long time. It is choking us and holding us back."-I.L. Cohen, Darwin
Was Wrong: A Study in Probabilities (1985).
"This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations,
the limits of the categories Nature presents to us, is the inheritance of
biology from The Origin of Species. To establish the continuity required by
theory, historical arguments are invoked, even though historical evidence is
lacking. Thus are engendered those fragile towers of hypothesis based on
hypothesis, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable
confusion."-*W.R. Thompson, "Introduction," to Everyman's Library issue of
*Charles Darwin's, Origin of Species (1956 edition).
" `Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are
great con men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever.
In explaining evolution we do not have one iota of fact.' A tangled mishmash
of guessing games and figure juggling [Tahmisian called it]."-*The Fresno
Bee, August 20, 1959, p. 1-B [quoting T.N. Tahmisian, physiologist for the
Atomic Energy Commission].
" `The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.' "-*Louis Agassiz,
quoted in H. Enoch, Evolution or Creation, (1966), p. 139. [Agassiz was a
Harvard University professor and the pioneer in glaciation.]
"[In Darwin's writings] possibilities were assumed to add up to probability,
and probabilities then were promoted to certitudes."-*Agassiz, op. cit., p.
335.
"The origin of all diversity among living beings remains a mystery as
totally unexplained as if the book of Mr. Darwin had never been written, for
no theory unsupported by fact, however plausible it may appear, can be
admitted in science."-L. Agassiz on the Origin of Species, American Journal
of Science, 30 (1860), p. 154. [Darwin's book was published in 1859.]
"[Darwin could] summon up enough general, vague and conjectural reasons to
account for this fact, and if these were not taken seriously, he could come
up with a different, but equally general, vague and conjectural set of
reasons."-*Gertrude Himmelfarb, Darwin and Darwinian Revolution (1968), p.
319.
"Ultimately the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the
great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century . . the origin of life and of
new beings on earth is still largely as enigmatic as when Darwin set sail on
the [ship] Beagle."-*Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986),
p. 358.
"It has been estimated that no fewer than 800 phrases in the subjunctive
mood (such as `Let us assume,' or `We may well suppose,' etc.) are to be
found between the covers of Darwin's Origin of Species alone."-L. Merson
Davies [British scientist], Modern Science (1953), p. 7.
"I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any
evolutionary theory I know."-*Stephen Jay Gould, "Evolution as Fact and
Theory," Discover 2(5):34-37 (1981).
"Unfortunately for Darwin's future reputation, his life was spent on the
problem of evolution which is deductive by nature . . It is absurd to expect
that many facts will not always be irreconcilable with any theory of
evolution and, today, every one of his theories is contradicted by
facts."-*P.T. Mora, The Dogma of Evolution, p. 194.
"Darwinism is a creed not only with scientists committed to document the
all-purpose role of natural selection. It is a creed with masses of people
who have, at best, a vague notion of the mechanism of evolution as proposed
by Darwin, let alone as further complicated by his successors."-*S. Jaki,
Cosmos and Creator (1982).
"In essence, we contend that neo-Darwinism is a theory of differential
survival and not one of origin . .
"We are certainly not arguing here that differential survival of whole
organisms does not occur. This must inevitably happen [i.e. some species
become extinct]. The question that we must ask is, does this represent the
controlling dynamic of organic evolution? Cannot a similar argument be
equally well-constructed to `explain' any frequency distribution? For
example, consider rocks which vary in hardness and also persist through
time. Clearly the harder rocks are better `adapted' to survive harsh
climatic conditions. As Lewontin points out, a similar story can be told
about political parties, rumors, jokes, stars, and discarded soft drink
containers."-*A.J. Hughes and *D. Lambert, "Functionalism, Structuralism,
`Ways of Seeing,' " Journal of Theoretical Biology, 787 (1984), pp. 796-797.
"Biologists have indeed built their advances in evolutionary theory on the
Darwinian foundation, not realizing that the foundation is about to topple
because of Darwin's three mistakes.
"George Bernard Shaw wisecracked once that Darwin had the luck to please
everybody who had an axe to grind. Well, I also have an axe to grind, but I
am not pleased. We have suffered through two world wars and are threatened
by an Armageddon. We have had enough of the Darwinian fallacy."-*Kenneth
Hsu, "Reply," Geology, 15 (1987), p. 177.
"Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is
taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special
assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc
hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears
convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor
science."-*James Conant [chemist and former president, Harvard University],
quoted in Origins Research, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1982, p. 2.
"It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be
checked by observation are not really saying anything-or at least they are
not science."-*George G. Simpson, "The Nonprevalence of Humanoids," in
Science, 143 (1964) p. 770.
"In accepting evolution as fact, how many biologists pause to reflect that
science is built upon theories that have been proved by experiment to be
correct or remember that the theory of animal evolution has never been thus
approved."-*L.H. Matthews, "Introduction," Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
(1971 edition).
"Present-day ultra-Darwinism, which is so sure of itself, impresses
incompletely informed biologists, misleads them, and inspires fallacious
interpretations . .
"Through use and abuse of hidden postulates, of bold, often ill-founded
extrapolations, a pseudoscience has been created. It is taking root in the
very heart of biology and is leading astray many biochemists and biologists,
who sincerely believe that the accuracy of fundamental concepts has been
demonstrated, which is not the case."-*Pierre P. de Grasse, The Evolution of
Living Organisms (1977), p. 202.
"The over-riding supremacy of the myth [of evolution] has created a
widespread illusion that the theory of evolution was all but proved one
hundred years ago and that all subsequent biological
research-paleontological, zoological and in the newer branches of genetics
and molecular biology-has provided ever-increasing evidence for Darwinian
ideas. Nothing could be further from the truth.
[In a letter to Asa Gray, a Harvard professor of biology, Darwin wrote:] "I
am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true
science."-*Charles Darwin, quoted in *N.C. Gillespie, Charles Darwin and the
Problem of Creation (1979), p. 2 [University of Chicago book].
"The fact is that the evidence was so patchy one hundred years ago that even
Darwin himself had increasing doubts as to the validity of his views, and
the only aspect of his theory which has received any support over the past
century is where it applies to microevolutionary phenomena. His general
theory, that all life on earth had originated and evolved by a gradual
successive accumulation of fortuitous mutations, is still, as it was in
Darwin's time, a highly speculative hypothesis entirely without direct
factual support and very far from that self-evident axiom some of its more
aggressive advocates would have us believe."-*Michael Denton, Evolution: A
Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 77.
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