Charles Darwin in.The
Origin of Species, J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. London, 1971, page 167."To
suppose that the eye with all its
inimitable.contrivances
for adjusting the focus to different distance, 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."
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Sir Fred Hoyle (English
astronomer, Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University, developer of
the Steady
State Theory), as quoted in Hoyle on Evolution;.Nature,
vol. 294, Nov. 12, '81, page 105."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."
Sir Fred Hoyle and Chandra
Wickramasinghe (Professor of Astronomy and Applied Mathematics at University
College, Cardiff), "Convergence to God", in.Evolution
from Space, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1981,
pp.
141 and 144.."Once
we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is
so utterly minuscule
(small, tiny) as to make the
random concept.absurd,
it becomes sensible to think that the favourable 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 in a valid way the higher
intelligences to our left, even to the extreme idealized limit of 'God'."
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Frederick B. Jueneman, FAIC,
Secular Catastrophism,.Industrial
Research and Development, June 1982, page 21."The
age of our globe is presently thought to be some 4.5 billion years (some
today say 15), based on radio decay (radio
carbon dating) rates of uranium and thorium. Such 'confirmation' may
be short lived, as nature is not to be discovered quite so easily. There
has been in recent years the horrible realization that radio
decay rates are not as constant as previously thought, nor are they
immune to environmental influences. And this could mean that the atomic
clocks are reset during some global disaster and events which brought the
Mesozoic to a close may not be 65 million years ago, but rather, within
the age and memory of man (7000 years)."
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Mark Ridley (Zoologist,
Oxford University), "Who doubts evolution?".New
Scientist, vol. 90, June 25, '81, page 831."In
any case, no real evolutionist, whether gradualist
or 'punctuationist',
uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of the theory of evolution
as opposed to special creation."
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Oliver Wendell Holmes."Science
has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith and inconsistent with it.
But all science in fact rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence
and uniformity of natural laws.
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George C. Williams,.The
Pony Fish's Glow, (1997), Basic
Books, New York, N.Y, chapter 7, page 125-"Evolution never designed anything
from scratch. It can only tinker with whatever happens to be already there..."
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Mae Wan Ho and Peter Saunders,
English evolutionary biologists. Beyond Neo-Darwinism.–.An
Epigenetic Approach to Evolution, M.W. Ho and P.T. Saunders, 1979,.Journal
of Theoretical Biology, 78, 589."...the
success of the theory of evolution is limited to the minutiae (relatively
unimportant details) of evolution, such as the adaptive change in coloration
of the moths (since revealed to be a
hoax used to 'prove' evolution) while it has remarkably little to say
on the questions which interests us most, such as how there came to be
moths in the first place?"
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John McDonald, University
of Georgia geneticist..The
Molecular Basis of Adaption, J.F. McDonald, 1983. Annual Review of
Ecology and Systematics, 14, 93."The
last 20 years of research on the genetic basis of adaption has led us to
a great Darwinian paradox:
Those
genes that
are obviously variable within natural populations do not seem to lie at
the basis of many major adaptive changes, while genes that seemingly do
not constitute
the foundation of many, if not most, major adaptive changes apparently
are not variable within natural populations."
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George Mikles, Australian
evolutionary geneticist. G.L.G. Mikles, 1993,.Emergence
of Organizational Complexities During Metazoan
Evolution: Perspectives from Molecular Biology, Paleontology and Neo-Darwinism,
Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Paleontologists, 15, 28."What
does this all encompassing theory of evolution predict? Given a handful
of postulates
such as random.mutations,
and selection coefficients (factors that contribute to produce a result),
it will predict changes in gene
frequency over time. Is this what the grand 'ol theory of evolution ought
to be about?"
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Jerry Coyne, Department
of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago;.The
Genetics of Adaption: A Re-Assessment.by
H.A. Orr and J.A. Coyne, 1992,.American
Naturalist, 140, 726."...there
is little evidence (for the 20th
century adaption of Darwin's theory) for neo Darwinian.(a
biological theory which maintains that natural selection is the main factor
in the evolution of animals and plants, and denies the inheritance of acquired
characteristics).view:
its theoretical foundations and the experimental evidence supporting it
are weak.
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