"What is the use of their unceasing mutations if they do not change? In sum, the mutations of bacteria and viruses are merely hereditary fluctuations around a median position; a swing to the right, a swing to the left, but no final evolutionary effect."--Pierre-Paul Grasse (Source: Evolution of Living Organisms, p. 87)
"But many of our pictures are incarnations of concepts masquerading as neutral descriptions of nature. These are the most potent sources of conformity, since ideas passing as descriptions lead us to equate the tentative with the unambiguously factual."--Stephen Jay Gould (Source: Wonderful Life, 1989, p. 28)
"We believe as an article of faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet. It is just that its complexity is so great, it is hard for us to imagine that it did."--Dr. Harold C. Urey
"The question is: Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing that you think is true? I tried that question on the geology staff in 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 Chicago, a very prestigious body of evolutionists, and all I got was silence for a long time, and then eventually one person said, 'Yes, I do know one thing. It ought not be taught in high school.'"--Colin Patterson (Source: speech given at American Museum of Natural History on 5 November 1981)
"It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a materialistic explanation of the phenomenal world."--Richard Lewontin, genetics professor at Harvard
"The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based on faith alone."--Professor T. L. More
"Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudianism and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx, and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in that dark dungeon where discarded gods gather."--Dr. David Berlinski
"No coherent picture of the history of the earth could be built on the basis of radioactive datings."--Curt Teichert (Source: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, vol. 69, January 1958)
"The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeinjg 747 from the materials therein."--Sir Fred Hoyle (Source: "Hoyle on Evolution," Nature, vol. 294, 12 November 1981, p. 105)
"Natural selection is incompetent to account for the incipient stages of useful structures."--Charles Darwin (Source: The Origin of Species, Sixth Edition, p. 66)
"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."--Stephen Jay Gould (Source: "Is a New and General Theory of Evolution Emerging?" Paleobiology, vol. 6, Winter 1980, p. 127)
"The whole basis on which paleontologists classify fossil apes and humans in misleading. The time has come to admit that the system by which we name things is inadequate in dealing with things that have a time dimension."--Richard Leakey (Source: an interview with Leakey, Vancouver Sun, 19 March 1982)
"It is as a religion of science that Darwinism held, and holds men's minds.... The modified, but still characteristically Darwinian theory has itself become an orthodoxy, preached by its adherents with religious fervor, and doubted, they feel, only by muddlers imperfect in scientific faith."--Marjorie Grene, historian of science at the University of California at Davis (Source: Encounter, November 1959, pp. 48-49)
"I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory but a metaphysical research programme--a possible framework for testable scientific theories."--Sir Karl Popper, noted philosopher of science (Source: The Philosophy of Karl Popper, p. 134)
"Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and paleontology does not find them."--David B. Kitts, professor of geology at the University of Oklahoma (Source: "Paleontology and Evolutionary Theory," Evolution, vol. 28, September 1974, p. 467)
"In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit in with it."--H. Lipson (Source: "A Scientist Looks at Evolution," Physics Bulletin, vol. 31, May 1980, p. 138)
"Contrary to what most scientists write, the fossil record does not support the Darwinian theory of evolution because it is this theory (there are several) which we use to interpret the fossil record. By doing so we are guilty of circular reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports this theory."--Ronald West, Assistant Professor of Paleobiology at Kansas State University (Source: "Paleontology and Uniformitarianism," Compass, vol. 45, no. 4, May 1968, p. 216)
"Natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest."--Hugo deVries (Source: Species and Variations: Their Origin by Mutation, 1905, pp. 825-826)
"It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student... have now been 'debunked.'"--Derek Ager (Source: "The Nature of the Fossil Record," Proceedings of the Geological Association, vol. 87, no. 2 [1976], pp. 132-133)
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