Professor Richard
Goldschmidt, a geneticist at the University of California at Berkeley,
listed a series of complex structures from the hair of mammals
to hemoglobin
that he thought could not have been produced by the thousands of years
of small mutations. As Goldschmidt put it."To
suppose that such a random
event could reconstruct even a single complex organ like a liver or
kidney is about as reasonable as to suppose that an improved watch can
be designed by throwing an old one against the wall.
"The many missing
links in the paleontological
record are sought for in vain because they have never existed."....The
Material Basis of Evolution, 1940, New Haven: Yale University Press,
page 395.
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Professsor G. A. Kerkut,
Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Southampton, in.Implications
of Evolution, Pergamon Press, London, 1960,
pp.
144,145.."It
would not be fitting in discussing the implications
of Evolution to leave the evolution of the horse out of the discussion.
The evolution of the horse provides one of the keystones in the teaching
of evolutionary doctrine, though the actual story depends to a large extent
upon who is telling it and when the story is being told. In fact one could
easily discuss the evolution of the story of the evolution of the horse."
P. 150."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 for what did happen is not available."
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Richard E. Dickerson, Ph.D.
(physical chemistry), professor, California Institute of Technology, article,
'Chemical evolution and the origin of life', in Scientific American,
vol. 239 (3), September 1978, pp.77, 78.."The
evolution of the genetic
machinery is the step for which there are no laboratory models; hence
one can speculate
endlessly,
unfettered
by inconvenient facts.....We can only imagine what probably existed and
our imagination so far has not been very helpful."
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William D. Stansfield, Ph.D.
(animal breeding), instructor of Biology, California Polytechnic State
University in.The
Science of Evolution, Macmillan, New York, 1977, p. 80.."Certain
fossils appear to be restricted to rocks of a relatively limited geological
age span. These are called 'index fossils'. Whenever a rock is found bearing
such a fossil, its approximate age is automatically established....This
method is not foolproof. Occasionally an organism, previously thought to
be extinct, is found to be extant. Such 'living fossils' obviously cannot
function as index fossils except within the broader time span of their
known existence."
Pp. 82 and 84.."It
is obvious that radiometric
techniques may not be the absolute dating methods that they are claimed
to be. Age estimates on a given geological stratum
by different radiometric methods are often quite different, sometimes by
hundreds of millions of years. There is no absolutely reliable long term
radiological 'clock'. The uncertainties inherent
in radiometric dating are disturbing to geologists and evolutionists..."
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A. Hayatsu, Department of
Geophysics, University of Western Ontario, Canada, article, 'K-Ar isochron
age of the North Mountain Basalt, Nova Scotia',.Canadian
Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 16, 1979.."In
conventional interpretation of K-Ar.(potassium/argon
dating method).age
data, it is common to discard ages which are substantially
too high or too low compared with the rest of the group or with other available
data such as the geological time scale.
The discrepancies
between the rejected and the accepted are arbitrarily.attributed
to excess or loss of argon."
In other
words the potassium/argon (K/Ar) method doesn't support the uranium/lead
(U/Pb) method.
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Prof. J. F. Evernden, Department
of Geology, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Dr. John R. Richards,
Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra,
article, 'Potassium-argon ages in eastern Australia', in.Journal
of the Geological Society of Australia, vol. 9 (1), 1962, p.3.."Thus,
if one believes that the derived
ages in particular instances are in gross disagreement with established
facts of field geology,
he must
conjure
up geological processes that could cause anomalous
or altered
argon
contents of the minerals."
