Niles
Eldredge,
paleontologist."No
wonder paleontologists shied away from evolution for so long. It
never seems to happen."
Niles Eldredge, American
Museum of Natural History, New York, USA in.Time
Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated
Equilibria, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1985 and William Heinemann
Ltd, London, 1986, p. 52."And
this poses something of a problem: if we date the rocks by their fossils,
how can we then turn around and talk about patterns of evolutionary change
through time in the fossil record?"
In other words 'if on one
hand, we use the fossils to date rocks, we can't use that criterion
as basis for mouthing off about evolutionary change, because the dated
rock records fail in showing any transitional fossils'.
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Ernst Mayer, evolutionist
declares."there
is no evidence for the gradual emergence of any evolutionary novelty.(something
new popping up from the alleged.successive
stages of evolution).by
the accumulation of small adaptive modifications."
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Douglas Dewar, a British
naturalist and former evolutionist: "Paleontology
cannot be regarded other than a hostile witness against evolution. It is
not possible to draw up a pedigree
showing the descent
of any species living or extinct from an ancestor belonging to a different
order.(*).
The earliest known fossils of each
class and order are not half
made or half developed forms, but exhibit fully developed, the essential
characteristic of their class order. It is not possible to arrange a genealogical.(the
study of descent from an ancestor).series
of fossils proving that any series has in the past undergone sufficient
change to transform it into another member of another family. All the changes
proved by fossils are within
the limits of the family."
But this
quote is on the contrary.
We have many types of dogs,
but they are all dogs, all of the 'dog family', all after their kind:.Genesis
1:21 "And God created great whales and every living creature that moves,
which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind and every winged
fowl after his kind. And God saw that it was good.".No
fossil record exists showing even slight change into an elephant, giraffe,
cheetah, etc. or vice
versa.
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Richard Owen, British naturalist."Progressive
evolution predicted that modern reptiles should be more advanced than their
extinct counterparts. However, it has been observed that the period when
the class of reptiles flourished under the wildest modifications, in the
greatest number and the highest grade of organization, is past and declining.
The sudden extinction of the one.(Dinosaurian
order).and
the abrupt appearance of the other.(i.e.
Pterodactyls having given way to birds).are
inexplicable
on any known natural causes."
Owen
continues:."The
evidence...permits no other conclusion than that the different species
of reptiles were suddenly
introduced upon the Earth's surface."
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Michael
Behe, Professor of Biochemistry at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
in his book.Darwin's
Black Box, explains that the complexity of the chemical activity
at a molecular level, even in the functioning of one part of the body,
such as the eye, points to
intelligent
design rather than evolution.."The
molecular machine that is the bacterial flagellum
is an indicator of complexity calling for Intelligent
Design. The anti-intellectual nature of ignoring alternative
explanations and the pitfalls of scientific consensus is a stand-in
for truth."
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The Journal of Molecular
Evolution.is
devoted exclusively to research aimed at explaining how life at the molecular
level came to be. They publish about 1000 scientific papers each decade.
Twelve of the editorial staff are members of the National Academy of Sciences.
In the JME's volume 38, 1994, pages 305-309, J.C. Adell and J. Dopazo's
article.'Monte
Carlo Simulation in Phylogonies:
An Application To Test The Constancy of Evolutionary Rates', states."The
mathematics that real world evolution is a gradual random process.(gradualism).cannot
be demonstrated. Answering the main question of how a complex biochemical
system achieved its function; no one has explained just how, scientifically,
mutation
and natural selection
could build the complicated intricate structures necessary for observable
complex biochemical systems."
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Sir
Gavin de Beer, British Museum of Natural History,.In
The Minds Of Men, 1991, Ian T.Taylor, TFE Publishing, Toronto, page
274."Seldom has
an assertion
like that of Hackel's 'theory of recapitulation',
facile.(easy),
tidy and plausible,
widely accepted without critical
examination, done so much harm to science."
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Brian Hayes, former editor,.American
Scientist."The
central dogma of molecular biology says that information flows from DNA
to RNA to protein.(from
complex to simpler), not the other
way around."
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Raymond Pearl, geneticist,
on Jonathan Weiner's.The
Book of the Finch, 1995, Vintage Books, New York, page 52."The
whole question of the struggle for existence has been discussed very largely
from a priori
standpoint, throughout the period since Darwin's.The
Origin of Species."
Page 130."In
1981 the British Museum's Natural History Building in South Kensington
ran a continuous running film loop on which a narrator explains "The survival
of the fittest is an empty phrase. It is a play on words. For this reason,
many critics feel that not only is the idea of evolution unscientific,
but the idea of natural selection also...The idea of evolution by natural
selection is a matter of logic,
not science."
