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NOTABLE QUOTES FROM EVOLUTIONISTS:
In a letter to Harvard biology professor Asa Gray, Charles Darwin himself wrote:
“I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science.”
On page 75 of his book The Origin of Species, 1859, Darwin wrote:
“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”
(But then he continues to imagine it anyway.)
In a letter to Charles Lyell, Darwin wrote:
“Often a cold shudder has run through me and I have asked myself whether I may have devoted myself to a phantasy.”
H. Nilsson, Synthetic Speciation (1953), page 31:
“My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed. At least I should hardly be accused of having started from any preconceived anti-evolutionary standpoint.”
Physiologist Dr. T. N. Tahmisian, 1959:
“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.”
Errol White of the Linnean Society of London, 1966:
“We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology…”
Dr. Stephen J. Gould, Harvard University,
Evolution’s Erratic Pace, Natural History Vol.5, 1977:
“The evolutionary trees [diagrams] that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches [what’s alive today]; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.”
Evolution Now (1982), page 140:
“The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution.”
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, 1996:
“All those trees of life with their branches of our ancestors, that’s a lot of nonsense.”
Sir Arthur Keith, physical anthropologist and head of the Anatomy Department at London Hospital, author of the forward to the 100th Anniversary Edition of The Origin of Species in 1959:
“Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.”
Dr. George Wald, Nobel Prize winner and professor emeritus of biology at Harvard University:
“I do not want to believe in God, therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation arising to evolution.”
Renown peptide chemist Miklos Bodanszky:
“Evolution could not have happened by chance, but I am unwilling to invoke a god.”
Dr. Michael Ruse, professor of philosophy and zoology at the University of Guelph:
“Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion–a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint…the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning and it is true of evolution still today.”
NOTABLE QUOTES FROM FORMER EVOLUTIONISTS:
Edward Boudreaux, PhD:
“I started…looking into the published literature…and to my amazement… I could not find legitimate, scientific, credible evidence that supported evolution. [Just] suppositions, presumptions, [and] conjectures that were knitted together to form a framework of a concept. I wouldn’t even give evolution the title of a ‘theory’ or even a hypothesis.”
Dr. Robbie Carpenter, 2007:
“…evolution is a religion.”
Dr. Colin Patterson:
“One of the reasons I started taking this anti-evolutionary view, was…it struck me that I had been working on this stuff for 20 years and there was not one thing I knew about it. That’s quite a shock to learn that one can be so misled so long… ‘Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing that is true?’ I tried that question on the geology staff at the Field Museum of Natural History and the only answer I got was silence. I tried it on the members of the Evolutionary Morphology Seminar in the University of Chicago, a very prestigious body of evolutionists, and all I got there was silence…”
Dr. David Plaisted’s website [www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce]:
“Dr. Colin Patterson, a paleontologist, realized that amino acid sequences in near-relatives on the phylogenic tree would be expected to show close correlation, according to evolutionary theory… To Patterson, this was a great opportunity to test the theory. The results: absolutely no correlation between similarity of sequences and nearness on the evolutionary tree. Patterson, in a speech given Nov. 5, 1981 before other evolutionists, pointed out to a stunned audience that the new data on amino acid sequences contradicts the theory of evolution. He said, ‘The theory makes a prediction; we’ve tested it, and the prediction is falsified precisely’…”
Dr. Carl Baugh:
“…the incredible complexity in living systems and the structure of the universe…is beyond the possibility of natural development… we can come to a scientific and logical conclusion that a Creator designed the universe, based on the evidence.”
Joseph Mastropaolo, PhD, 2005:
“I was an evolutionist for most of my life… I consider that the greatest betrayal of my entire educational career… evolution is not science. It may have been portrayed that way recently on PBS, but it is not science. It actually is anti-science… evolution is a sham… we are devolving.”
