What Scientists Say

What scientists say . . .

"Not one change of species into another is on record... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed." Charles Darwin, Life and Letters vol. 1

“Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.” – Charles Darwin, Life and Letters, 1887, vol. 2 p. 229.

“Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.”

-Charles Darwin

"If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory,

for such could not have been produced through natural selection." - Charles Darwin

To say every living thing came about via mindless random processes requires a faith that far exceeds belief in a Supreme Creator. As the renown British physicist Lord Kelvin once wrote:

"Overwhelming strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us ... The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words."

- Lord Kelvin, Vict. Inst., 124, p267

The famous British anatomist and evolutionist Solly Zuckerman once wrote that it is doubtful whether there is any science at all in the search for man's fossil ancestory.

- Solly Zuckerman, Beyond the Ivory Tower, pg. 64

Nobel Prize winner and evolutionist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi acknowledged that time, chance, and random mutations could never produce the numerous symbiotic relationships we see all around us .

The evolutionist Ernst Mayr once candidly wrote that "it is a considerable strain on one's credulity to assume that finely balanced systems such as certain sense organs (the eye of vertebrates, or the bird's feather) could be improved by random mutations, - Ernst Mayr, Systematics and the Origin of Species, New York: Dover Publications, 1942, pg 296

"No one has ever produced a species by mechanisms of natural selection. No one has ever gotten near it and most of the current argument in neo-Darwinism is about this question." - Dr. Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History, quote cited in "The Modern Creation Trilogy, Vol II" Henry & John Morris, 1996, p35 [Colin Patterson, "Cladistics", Interview on BBC TV on March 4, 1982].

A fundamental truth from information theory is that complex information, particularly coded information such as DNA, cannot come into existence outside the presence of already-existing information, or an Information Giver. Information Scientist Dr. Werner Gitt, who heads the Department of Information Technology at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, has proposed several new universal laws of science, including the following: 1) It is impossible to have information without a sender. 2) It is impossible that information can originate in statistical processes. These fundamental truths of information have been observed countless times over without a single violation.

"A sound explanation may exist for the explosive birth of our Universe; but if it does, science cannot find out what the explanation is. The scientist's pursuit of the past ends in the moment of creation. This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They have always accepted the word of the Bible: In the beginning God created heaven and earth... At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries." -- Robert Jastrow God and the Astronomers, 1978, W.W. Norton, NY, pp115-116, in Moreland J.P. ed., The Creation Hypothesis, 1994, pp292-293.

Sir Fred Hoyle and world-famous mathematician Chandra Wickramasinghe calculated the probability of a SINGLE CELL coming into existence to be 10 to the 40,000 power!2 (the number of electrons in the entire universe is estimated to be 10 to the 52nd power!). Now consider that the the genetic information in a SINGLE CELL contains the equivalent of a library of about 4000 volumes3, and the human body has 30 TRILLION CELLS! Evidence for God is all around us, evidence for evolution is about as tenable as proof of the existence of Alice In Wonderland. 2. Dr. Walt Brown, In The Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, Special Edition, 1996, pg. 50. 3. Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden, NY, Random House, 1977, pg. 25

“we must concede that there are presently no detailed Darwinian accounts of the evolution of any biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations.” Evolutionary biochemist

Harold, Franklin M. (Prof. Emeritus Biochemistry, Colorado State University) The way of the cell: molecules, organisms and the order of life, Oxford University Press, New York, 2001, p. 205.

“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe—a spirit vastly

superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.” Albert Einstein

“Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.” Michael Ruse, atheist & former professor of philosophy and zoology

Ruse, M., How evolution became a religion: creationists correct? National Post, pp. B1, B3, B7, May 13, 2000

“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology”.

“the maintenance of stability within species must be considered as a major evolutionary problem.”

Professor, paleontologist, & evolutionist Jay Gould Evolution’s erratic pace, Natural History 86(5):14, May 1977.

Gould, S.J. and Eldredge, N., Punctuated equilibrium comes of age. Nature 366:223–224, 1993.

“Evolution has been observed. It’s just that it hasn’t been observed while it’s happening.”

Richard Dawkins - pbs.org/now/printable/transcript349_full_print.html>, 3 December, 2004

“Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical [religious] research programme ….”

Philosopher of science Popper, K., Unended Quest, Fontana, Collins, Glasgow, p. 151, 1976.