Page 68 - The Intellectual Struggle Against Darwinism

66 THE INTELLECTUAL STRUGGLE AGAINST DARWINISM

SOME SCIENTISTS WHO ADMIT
THE IMPASSE FACING
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
Charles Darwin, the founder of the theory of evolution, had also
great reservations about it. He was aware that his theory was unable to ex-
plain how living beings came into being and confessed this truth in-be-
tween the lines of his books or in his private letters.
Long before the reader has arrived at this part of my work [The
Origin of Species], a crowd of difficulties will have occurred to him.
Some of them are so serious that to this day I can hardly reflect on
them without being in some degree staggered… 5
Such is the sum of the several chief objections and difficulties which
may justly be urged against my theory… I have felt these difficulties
far too heavily during many years to doubt their weight. 6
I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the
bounds of true science. 7
Also after Darwin, evolutionists who were unable to find even a sin-
gle piece of scientific evidence to support the theory of evolution some-
times confessed the predicament they were in. Despite their admissions,
however, the great majority of them refused to accept the truth, out of an
unwillingness to break with materialism.
Below are set out a few statements by scientists admitting that
Darwinism cannot account for the emergence of life.
Dr. Robert Milikan, a Nobel Prize-winning evolutionist:
The pathetic thing is that we have scientists who are trying to prove
evolution, which no scientist can ever prove. 8
Jerry Coyne, of the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the
University of Chicago:
We conclude—unexpectedly—that there is little evidence for the neo-
Darwinian view: its theoretical foundations and the experimental ev-
idence supporting it are weak. 9