The Falling Dominoes of Darwinism

1. FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN; 1979      Can we really form a biological cell by waiting for chance combinations of organic compounds? Harold Morowitz, in his book "Energy Flow and Biology" computed that merely to create a bacterium would require more time than the universe might ever see if chance combinations of its molecules were the only driving force.

2. FROM WERNHER von BRAUN     It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happened by chance. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all

3. FROM SIR FRED HOYLE    The emergence of a single-cell organism from random couplings of chemicals is about as likely as the assembly of a 747 by a tornado whirling through a junkyard.

4. FROM FRANCIS CRICK    Given the weakness of all the theories of terrestrial genesis [the origin of life on Earth], directed panspermia [the deliberate planting of life on Earth] should be considered a serious possibility.

5. AGAIN FRANCIS CRICK Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

6. FROM GEORGE WALLS, PROFESSOR OF BIO HARVARD     One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that spontaneous generation of living organisms is impossible. I choose however to believe that which is impossible rather than accept the unthinkable - special creation. 

7. FROM LEE SPETNER    All point mutations that have been studied on the molecular level turn out to reduce the genetic information and not to increase it.

8. FROM THE JOURNAL SCIENCE; "DID DARWIN GET IT RIGHT"     The most thorough study of species formation in the fossil record confirms that new species appear with a most un-Darwinian abruptness.

9. FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES     Spectacular Fossils Record Early Riot of Creation (the Cambrian explosion)

10. FROM Dr JAN BERGSTROM    Considering the complexity of the DNA genetic codes which shape all life, the chance formation of a new type of animal within the short time of the Cambrian explosion requires an active imagination. It strains the credibility of random molecular evolution.

11. FROM NILES ELDRIDGE; LEADING EXPERT ON INVERTEBRATE FOSSILS    No wonder paleontologists shy away from evolution. It never seems to happen. 

12.. FROM NATIONAL REVIEW    There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations. 

13. FROM JAMES SHAPIRO    It is remarkable that Darwinism is accepted as a satisfactory explanation for such a vast subject.....evolution.....with so little rigorous examination of how well its basic theses work in illuminating specific instances of biological adaptation or diversity.   

14. FROM CHARLES DARWIN    To think that the eye could evolve by natural selection seems I freely confess absurd in the highest possible degree.

15. ALSO FROM DARWIN      The complete lack of fossil intermediates in all geological records is perhaps the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.

16. ANOTHER ONE FROM DARWIN     I have deluded myself and devoted myself to a fantasy.

17. THE WHOLE ENCHILADA FROM DARWIN     I am determined to escape from design and a personal God at all costs.

18. FROM RICHARD DAWKINS    As long as we can speculate freely about naturalistic explanations to nature and life, we shall keep ignoring all the evidence that points to intelligent design, no matter how strong this evidence is, and even if it takes engaging in scientific acrobatics.

19. FROM RICHARD LEAKY     I think we're still doing a great deal of guessing.

20. FROM ROBERT MARTIN    There is no clear-cut scientific picture of human evolution.

21. FROM MARY LEAKY     I do not believe it is possible to fit the known hominoid fossils into a clear pattern.

22. FROM DAVID PILBY    There is no clear-cut pathway from ape to human being. As to whether man evolved from chimps, orangutans, or gibbons; the fossil record has been elastic enough; the expectation sufficiently robust to accommodate almost any story. Perhaps generations of students of human evolution including myself have been flailing about in the dark; our data bases too sparse, too slippery for it to be able to mold our theories. But rather the theories are more statements about us and our idealology than our past.  

23.FROM RODGER LEWIN   Preconceived ideas shape the progress of all sciences, but nowhere else to the degree that occurs in the search for human origins.