Evolutionism Quotes
"The number of intermediate varieties which have formerly existed on earth must be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory." - Charles Darwin 1902 edition.
“…I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond
the bounds of true science….It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many
flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.”
“Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature….Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.” Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crises (Bethesda, Maryland: Adler & Adler, 1986) pp. 62, 358.
“I believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science.” Søren Løvtrup, Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth (New York: Croom Helm, 1987), p. 422.
“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.” Dr. T. N. Tahmisian Evolution and the Emperor's New Clothes by N.J. Mitchell (United Kingdom: Roydon Publications, 1983), title page.
"The Darwinian theory of descent has not a single fact to confirm it in the realm of nature. It is not the result of scientific research, but purely the product of imagination." Albert Fleischmann. Witnesses Against Evolution by John Fred Meldau (Denver: Christian Victory Publishing, 1968), p. 13.
“[T]he theory suffers from grave defects, which are becoming more and more apparent as time advances. It can no longer square with practical scientific knowledge, nor does it suffice for our theoretical grasp of the facts…No one can demonstrate that the limits of a species have ever been passed. These are the Rubicons which evolutionists cannot cross…Darwin ransacked other spheres of practical research work for ideas…But his whole resulting scheme remains, to this day, foreign to scientifically established zoology, since actual changes of species by such means are still unknown.” Albert Fleischmann, "The Doctrine of Organic Evolution in the Light of Modern Research," Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute 65 (1933): pp. 194-95, 205-6, 208-9.
“Evolutionism is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless.” Louis Bounoure. The Advocate, 8 March 1984, p. 17.
“And the salient fact is this: if by evolution we mean macroevolution (as we henceforth shall), then it can be said with the utmost rigor that the doctrine is totally bereft of scientific sanction. Now, to be sure, given the multitude of extravagant claims about evolution promulgated by evolutionists with an air of scientific infallibility, this may indeed sound strange. And yet the fact remains that there exists to this day not a shred of bona fide scientific evidence in support of the thesis that macroevolutionary transformations have ever occurred.” Wolfgang Smith, Teilhardism and the New Religion (Rockford., Ill.: Tan Books, 1988), pp. 5-6. Dr. Smith, taught at MIT and UCLA.
"With the failure of these many efforts, science was left in the somewhat embarrassing position of having to postulate theories of living origins which it could not demonstrate. After having chided the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the inevitable position of having to create a mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort could not prove to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past." Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey (1957), p. 199.
"If complex organisms ever did evolve from simpler ones, the process took place contrary to the laws of nature, and must have involved what may rightly be termed the miraculous." R.E.D. Clark, Victoria Institute (1943), p.
" `Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being. Then, as now, the so-called a priori arguments against Theism and, given a Deity, against the possibility of creative acts, appeared to me to be devoid of reasonable foundation." Thomas H. Huxley, quoted in *L. Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, Vol. I (1903), p. 241 (1903). 63.
"Our theory of evolution has become . . one which cannot be refuted by any possible observations. Every conceivable observation can be fitted into it . . No one can think of ways in which to test it. Ideas wither without basis or based on a few laboratory experiments carried out in extremely simplified systems, have attained currency far beyond their validity. They have become part of an evolutionary dogma accepted by most of us as part of our training." L.C. Birch and *P. Ehrlich, Nature, April 22, 1967.
"What is at stake is not the validity of the Darwinian theory itself, but of the approach to science that it has come to represent. The peculiar form of consensus the theory wields has produced a premature closure of inquiry in several branches of biology, and even if this is to be expected in `normal science,' such a dogmatic approach does not appear healthy." R. Brady, "Dogma and Doubt," Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 17:79, 96 (1982)
Philosophical Basis and Faith
[Evolution]“…a full-fledged alternative to Christianity…Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.” Michael Ruse. Saving Darwinism from the Darwinians. National Post (May 13, 2000). pB-3.
“As the creationists claim, belief in modern evolution makes atheists of people. One can have a religious view that is compatible with evolution only if the religious view is indistinguishable from atheism.” Will Provine, No Free Will. Catching Up with the Vision, Ed. By Margaret W. Rossiter (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) pS123.
“…evolution is the backbone of biology and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on unproven theory. Is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation. Both are concepts which the believers know to be true, but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.” L.H. Matthews, "Introduction to Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin (1971 edition), pp. x, xi.
[The theory of evolution] "forms a satisfactory faith on which to base our interpretation of nature." Harrison Matthews. Introduction to Origin of Species (1977 edition) p. xxii.
"In fact [subsequent to the publication of Darwin's book, Origin of Species], evolution became, in a sense, a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to `bend' their observations to fit with it. . To my mind, the theory does not stand up at all . . If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms, natural forces, and radiation, how has it come into being? . . I think, however, that we must go further than this and admit that the only acceptable explanation is Creation. I know that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject a theory that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it." H.S. Lipson, "A Physicist Looks at Evolution," Physics Bulletin, Vol. 31, p. 138 (1980) [emphasis his].
“The theory of evolution is impossible. At base, in spite of appearances, no one any longer believes in it….Evolution is a kind of dogma which the priests no longer believe, but which they maintain for their people.” Paul Lemoine. Encyclopedie Francaise 1937 edition. (President of the Geological Society of France and director of the Natural History Museum in Paris.)
[The Big Bang] “…represents the instantaneous suspension of physical laws, the sudden, abrupt flash of lawlessness that allowed something to come out of nothing. It represents a true miracle---transcending physical principles….” Paul Davies, The Edge of Infinity (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981), p161.
“We have all heard of The Origin of Species, although few of us have had time to read it…A casual perusal of the classic made me understand the rage of Paul Feyerabend…I agree with him that Darwinism contains ‘wicked lies’; it is not a ‘natural law’ formulated on the basis of factual evidence, but a dogma, reflecting the dominating social philosophy of the last century.” Kenneth J. Hsu, "Sedimentary Petrology and Biologic Evolution," Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 56 (September 1986): p730.
“I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.” Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun as quoted by James Perloff, Tornado in a Junkyard (Arlington, Massachusetts: Refuge Books, 1999), p. 253.
[The Big Bang] “…is only a myth that attempts to say how the universe came into being….” Hannes Alfvén “The Big Bang Never Happened,” Discover 9 (June 1988), p. 78.
“This evolutionist doctrine is itself one of the strangest phenomena of humanity…a system destitute of any shadow of proof, and supported merely by vague analogies and figures of speech….Now no one pretends that they rest on facts actually observed, for no one has ever observed the production of even one species….Let the reader take up either of Darwin's great books, or Spencer's ‘Biology,’ and merely ask himself as he reads each paragraph, ‘What is assumed here and what is proved?’ and he will find the whole fabric melt away like a vision….We thus see that evolution as an hypothesis has no basis in experience or in scientific fact, and that its imagined series of transmutations has breaks which cannot be filled.” Sir William Dawson, The Story of Earth and Man. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1887, pp. 317, 322, 330, 339.
[Darwin, speaking about
Huxley:] "My good and kind agent for the propagation of the Gospel, the
devil's gospel." Robert T. Clark and James D. Bales, "Why Scientists
Accept Evolution", 1988, p. 45.
"Darwin wrote in his
autobiography: `I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish
Christianity to be true ..." M. Grano, "The Faith of Darwinism",
Encounter, November 1959, p. 48
"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?"
L.N. Matthews, "Introduction" to Charles Darwin, Origin of
the Species, pp. x, xi (1971 edition)
"... post-Darwinian
biology is being carried out by people whose faith is in, almost, the deity
of Darwin. Colin Patterson, The Listener (Senior paleontologist at the
British Museum of Natural History, London.)
"[Karl] Popper
warns of a danger: 'A theory, even a scientific theory, may become an
intellectual fashion, a substitute for religion, an entrenched dogma.' This
has certainly been true of evolutionary theory." Colin Patterson,
"Evolution", 1977, p. 150.
"The irony is
devastating. The main purpose of Darwinism was to drive every last trace of
an incredible God from biology. But the theory replaces God with an even
more incredible deity - omnipotent chance." T. Rosazak, "Unfinished
Animal", 1975, p. 101-102.
"Evolution is sometimes
the key mythological element in a philosophy that functions as a virtual
religion." E. Harrison, "Origin and Evolution of the Universe",
Encyclopaedia Britannica Macropaedia (1974) p1007.
A Belief in Evolution is
a basal doctrine in the Rationalists Liturgy."
Sir Arthur Keith. Darwinism and its Critics. (1935), p53
"It is therefore a
matter of faith on the part of the biologist that biogenesis did occur and
he can choose whatever method of biogenesis happens to suit him personally;
the evidence of what did happen is not available." G.A. Kerkut. Implications of Evolution (1960), p150.
"... evolution became in
a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and
many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit with it ...
H.S. Lipson. A Physicist Looks at Evolution. Physics Bulletin, Vol. 31, p138
(1980)
"The more one studies
paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based on faith
alone ... exactly the same sort of faith which it is necessary to have when
one encounters the great mysteries of religion." Louis Trenchard More,
quoted in "Science and the Two-tailed Dinosaur", p33
"The doctrine of
evolution is a newly invented system, a newly concerted doctrine, a newly
formed dogma, a new rising belief, which places itself over against the
Christian faith, and can only found its temple on the ruins of our Christian
confession." Dr. Abraham Kuyper, "Evolution" speech delivered in 1899.
"It is a religion of science that Darwinism chiefly held, and holds over
men's minds."
Encounter, November 1959, p48 . "Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous,
perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis." Judith Hooper, "Perfect
Timing," New Age Journal, Vol. 11, (1985), p18 "The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at
present, still an article of faith." J.W.N. Sullivan, Limitations of
Science (1933), p95. "Today the tables are turned. 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 a few muddlers
imperfect in scientific faith." M. Grene, Faith of Darwinism,"
Encounter, November (1959), p49. "Evolution requires plenty of faith; a faith in L-proteins that defy
chance formation; a faith in the formation of DNA codes which, if generated
spontaneously, would spell only pandemonium; a faith in a primitive
environment that, in reality, would fiendishly devour any chemical
precursors to life; a faith in experiments that prove nothing but the need
for intelligence in the beginning; a faith in a primitive ocean that would
not thicken, but would only haplessly dilute chemicals; a faith in natural
laws of thermodynamics and biogenesis that actually deny the possibility for
the spontaneous generation of life; a faith in future scientific revelations
that, when realized, always seem to present more dilemmas to the
evolutionists; faith in improbabilities that treasonously tell two
stories—one denying evolution, the other confirming the Creator; faith in
transformations that remain fixed; faith in mutations and natural selection
that add to a double negative for evolution; faith in fossils that
embarrassingly show fixity through time, regular absence of transitional
forms and striking testimony to a worldwide water deluge; a faith in time
which proves to only promote degradation in the absence of mind; and faith
in reductionism that ends up reducing the materialist's arguments to zero
and forcing the need to invoke a supernatural Creator." R.L. Wysong, The
Creation-Evolution Controversy (1981), p. 455. "The facts must mold the theories, not the theories the facts . . I am
most critical of my biologist friends in this matter. Try telling a
biologist that, impartially judged among other accepted theories of science,
such as the theory of relativity, it seems to you that the theory of natural
selection has a very uncertain, hypothetical status, and watch his reaction.
I'll bet you that he gets red in the face. This is `religion,' not
`science,' with him." Burton, "The Human Side of the Physiologist:
Prejudice and Poetry," Physiologist 2 (1957). "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). "By calling evolution fact, the process of evolution is removed from
dispute; it is no longer merely a scientific construct, but now stands apart
from humankind and its perceptual frailties. Sagan apparently wishes to
accomplish what Peter Berger calls `objectification,' the attribution of
objective reality to a humanly produced concept . . With evolution no longer
regarded as a mere human construct, but now as a part of the natural order
of the cosmos, evolution becomes a sacred archetype against which human
actions can be weighed. Evolution is a sacred object or process in that it
becomes endowed with mysterious and awesome power." T. Lessl, Science
and the Sacred Cosmos: The Ideological Rhetoric of Carl Sagan," Quarterly
Journal of Speech, 71:178 (1985).