Charles
Darwin: "Long
before the reader has arrived at this part of my work, a crowd of difficulties
will have occurred to him. Some of them are so serious that to this day I can
hardly reflect on them without being in some degree staggered; but, to the best
of my judgment, the greater number are only apparent, and those that are real
are not, I think fatal to the theory."
Toward
the end of his life, Darwin openly admitted: "Not one change of species
into another is on record.... We cannot prove that a single species has changed
into another." Darwin, Charles, My
life and Letters, Vol. 1. Page 2 10.
Thomas
Huxley
said that "evolution was not an established theory but a tentative
hypothesis, an extremely valuable and even probable hypothesis, but a hypothesis
none the less."
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, Darwin and
the Darwinian Revolution, Doubleday and Co., New York, 1859, page 366.
Dr.
Austin H. Clark, noted biologist of the Smithsonian Institute,
stated:
"There is no evidence which would show man developing step by step
from lower forms of life.
There is nothing to show that man was in any way connected with
monkeys.... He appeared SUDDENLY and in substantially the same form as he is
today.... There are no such things as missing links."
He
also said, "So far as concerns the major groups of animals, the
creationists appear to have the best of the argument. There is NOT THE
SLIGHTEST EVIDENCE THAT ANY ONE OF THE MAJOR GROUPS AROSE FROM ANY OTHER.
Each is a special animal complex, related more or less closely to all the rest,
and appearing therefore as a species and distinct creation." Meldau,
Fred John, Witness Against Evolution, Christian Victory Publishing Co., Denver,
Colo., 1953, page 39, 40, 73.
Professor
Albert Fleishman, professor
of Comparative Anatomy at Erlangen University, said, "The theory of
evolution 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. 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."
Fleishman, Albert, Victoria Institute,
Vol. 65, pages 194, 195.
Sir
William Dawson, Canada's
great geologist, said of evolution: "It is one of the strangest phenomena
of humanity; it is utterly destitute of proof." Dawson, Sir William, Story of Earth and Man, page 317.
Dr. Robert A. Millikan, famous physicist and Nobel prize winner, said, "Everyone who reflects believes in God." Millikan, Robert A., The Commentator, June 1937.
In
an address to the American Chemical Society, he said: "The pathetic thing
about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution,
which no scientists can do."
Dr.
George Wald,
a Nobel prize winner, chooses to believe in evolution even though he said he
regards it as a scientific impossibility.
He says, "The only alternative to a spontaneous generation is a
belief in supernatural creation...."
Wald, George, "Innovation and Biology," Scientific American, Vol. 199, Sept. 1958, page 100.
Dr.
Wernher Von Braun, who masterminded
the V-2 rocket of Germany in World War II and the space program of the
United States for two decades, said in a speech at Taylor University:
"The idea of an orderly universe is inconceivable without God -- the
grandeur of the cosmos confirms the certainty of creation. One can't be exposed
to the law and order of the universe without becoming aware of a divine
intent."
Keith, Bill, Scopes II the Great Debate, Huntington House, 1985, page 55.
Richard
Goldschmidt, Ph.D.,
professor of zoology, University of California, said, "Geographic variation
as a model of species formation will not stand under thorough scientific
investigation.
Darwin's theory of natural selection has never had any proof .. yet it
has been universally accepted. There may be wide diversification within the
species ... but the gap (between species) cannot be bridged .... Sub-species do
not merge into the species either actually or ideally."
Keith, Bill, Scopes II the Great
Debate, Huntington House, 1985, pages 55-56.
Dr.
Warren Weaver,
formerly chairman of the board of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, said, "Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation'
of the order which God has built into His universe." Weaver,
Warren, Look Magazine, April 5, 1955, page 30.