Interesting Quotes from Evolutionists

      The following quotes are not from Christians who have a grudge to bear against the theory of evolution, they are from people and sources friendly to the theory. Look at the quotes and you will see that the theory is has problems to be addressed. Though the people quoted believe in evolution, it should be obvious that the theory is not so much a fact as many would like us to believe. After all, the theory of evolution is still evolving due to some of the problems listed below.

      "One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not yet been written." [Dr. Hubert P. Yockey, ‘A calculation of the probability of spontaneous biogenesis by information theory'. Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 67, 1977, p. 398.]

      "It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student...have now been debunked." [Dr. Derek V. Ager (Department of Geology, Imperial College, London), ‘The nature of the fossil record'. Proceedings of the Geological Association, Vol. 87 (2), 1976, pp. 132-133.]

Human Ancestor Quotes

      "I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information, and use that as a vehicle to speculate about hominid origins, an event for which there is no recognized fossil record. Hence, an opportunity to exercise some imagination." [American Anthropologist, Distinguished Lecture; Hominoid Evolution and Hominoid Origins, by David Pilbeam. Vol. 88, No. 2 June 1986. p. 295.]

      "Homo erectus has generally been dated at about 500,000 years to 700,000 years old. Now this species will have to be dated at more than twice that age. Richard E. Leakey announced this week the discovery of a complete Homo erectus skull that has been reliably dated at 1.5 to 1.8 million years... This skull helps to prove a hypothesis that he has long held-that true Homo coexisted with, rather than descended from, the more ape-like Australopithecus...It now seems clear that Homo and Australopithecus lived side-by-side more than 3 million years ago and that Homo continued to evolve after the australopithecine line died out about 1 million years ago." [Science News, March 13, 1976/No. 11, p. 164, Evolution Revolution.]

      "There are broader implications for our understanding of human evolution. First, these results imply that the various Australopithecines are really not all that much like humans. It therefore becomes a most interesting problem in its own right to work out just what these creatures were. They may well have been bipeds, toolmakers, and hunters; but if so, it was not in the human manner." [Oxnard, Charles E., The American Biology Teacher, Human Fossils: New Views of Old Bones. May 1979. vol. 41. No. 5 p. 274; 1986, Vol. 88, No. 2. Distinguished Lecture: Hominoid Evolution and Hominoid Origins. p. 29.]

Missing Link Quotes

      "The missing link between man and the apes...is merely the most glamorous of a whole hierarchy of phantom creatures. In the fossil record, missing links are the rule: the story of life is as disjointed as a silent newsreel, in which species succeed one another as abruptly as Balkan prime ministers. The more scientist have searched for the transitional forms between species, the more they have been frustrated... Evidence from fossils now points overwhelmingly away from the classical Darwinism which most Americans learned in high school..." [Newsweek, Is Man a Subtle Accident? Nov. 3, 1980 p. 95.]

      "The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution." [Stephen Jay Gould, "Is a New and General Theory of Evolution Emerging? Paleobiology, Vol. 6, January 1980, p. 127. Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard University.]

      "Links are missing just where we most fervently desire them, and it is all too probable that many ‘links' will continue to be missing." [Jepsen, L. Glenn; Mayr, Ernst; Simpson George Gaylord. Genetics, Paleontology, and Evolution, New York, Athenaeum, 1963 p. 114.]

      "...intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic change, and this is perhaps the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory." [Charles Darwin, "The Origin of Species," 1859, Chapter 11, "On the imperfection of the geologic record."]

      "Many new groups of plants and animals suddenly appear, apparently without any close ancestors. Most major groups of organisms--phyla, subphyla and even classes--have appeared in this way. This aspect of the record is real, not merely the result of faulty or biased collecting. A satisfactory explanation of evolution must take it into consideration and provide an explanation...The fossil record, which has produced the problem, is not much help in its solution." [The Evolution of Life by Everett C. Olson. The New American Library, New York and Toronto. 1965. p. 94.]

      "Each species of mammal-like reptile that has been found appears suddenly in the fossil record and is not preceded by the species that is directly ancestral to it. It disappears some time later, equally abruptly, without leaving a directly descended species." [ New Scientist vol. 93 No. 1295, The Reptiles that became Mammals, by Tom Kemp, March 4, 1982, p. 581.]

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