DO THE FACTS PROVE EVOLUTION?

Darwin said:

'I am well aware that there is scarcely a single point

discussed in this volume on which the facts cannot be adduced,

often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those

at which I have arrived. A fair result could be obtained only by

fully stating and balancing the facts on both sides of each

question, and this cannot possibly be done here.'

(Charles Darwin, 1859, Introduction to 'Origin of Species.' As

quoted in 'John Lofton's Journal,' 'The Washington Times,' February

8, 1984.

 

What do the facts prove?

'Biologists are simply naive when they talk about experiments

designed to test the theory of evolution. It is not testable. They

may happend to stumble across facts which seem to conflict with its

predictions. These facts will invariably be ignored and their

discoverers will undoubtedly by deprived of continuing research

grants.'

(1980 Assembly Week address: Professor Whitten, Professor of Genetics,

University of Melbourne.)

 

What do the facts say?

'Facts do not "speak for themselves"; they are read in the

light of theory. Creative thought, in science as much as in the

arts, is the motor of changing opinion. Science is a quintessentially

human activity, not a mechanized, robotlike accumulation of

objective information, leading by laws of logic to inescapable

interpretations.'

(Stephen Jay Gould, Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard

University, 'The validation of continental drift' in his book

'Ever Since Darwin,' W.W. Norton, 1977, p. 161.)