| PT Mora | "... How life originated, I am afraid that, since Pasteur, this question is not within the scientific domain." ("Urge and Molecular Biology", Nature, 199, 1963, P. 212) |
| Colin Patterson, Senior Paleontologist, British Museum of Natural History (Leading Evolutionist), in a lecture to Biologists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 1981 | "For the last 18 months or so I've
been kicking around non-evolutionary or even anti-evolutionary ideas.
For over 20 years I had thought I was working on evolution in some
way. One morning I woke up and something had happened in the night,
and it struck me that I had been working on this stuff for more than
20 years, and there was not one thing I knew about it. It's quite
a shock to learn that one can be misled for so long."
"For the last few weeks I've been putting a simple question to various people and groups: 'can you tell me anything you know about evolution? any one thing... that is true?' I tried that question on the Geology staff at the field museum of Natural History and the only answer I got was silence. I tried it on the members of the Evolutionary Morphology Seminar in the University of Chicago, a very prestigious body of Evolutionists, and all I got there was silence for a long time and eventually one person said 'I know one thing - it not to be taught in High School.'" (BBC Interview, 4 Mar 1982) Patterson further says that modern science assumes that "a rationalist view of nature has replaced an irrational one (creation)." He made that assumption until 1980. "Then I woke up and realized that all my life I had been duped into taking evolutionism as revealed truth in some way." He said he had experienced "a shift from evolution as knowledge to evolution as faith." Patterson says one of the main reasons for his skepticism is that there are no real transitional forms anywhere in the fossil record. "I don't think we shall ever have access to any form of tree which we can call factual." |
| Keith Thompson, Professor of Biology and Dean of the Graduate School at Yale. | States that speciation itself is still, 130 years after Darwin supposedly solved the problem, the central mystery of Evolutionary Biology. ("American Scientist, 1982, p. 529) |
| James Valentine, Paleontologist, University of California-Santa Barbara | "If ever we were to expect to find ancestors to or intermediates between higher taxa, it would be in the rocks of late Precambrian or Ordovician times, when the bulk of the worlds higher animal taxa evolved. Yet transitional alliances are unknown or unconfirmed for any phyla or classes appearing then." ("Development as an Evolutionary Process", Alan Leas Inc., 1987 p. 84) |
| Stephen Jay Gould, Paleontologist/Essayist, Harvard, (perhaps the most influential and articulate evolutionist spokesman of the current decade) | Gould has said that usch things as similarities and adaptations are at least as strong support for common design as for common ancestory. He says, in fact, that the main evidence now for evolution lies in such "imperfections" as the Panda's thumb. (Natural History, Han 1987, p. 14) |