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Introduction

cepted this fact. In his words, "One is forced to conclude that many sci-
entists and technologists pay lip-service to Darwinian theory only be-
cause it supposedly excludes a Creator..." 2
As will be seen throughout this book, no matter how much the au-
thors of the booklet Science and Creationism bear the name of scientists,
they have actually long since abandoned not only science, but also rea-
son and logic, and have set themselves the aim of denying the existence
of God and the fact that everything has a creator. These people believe
that a protein which has a 1 in 10 40,000 chance of emerging by chance ac-
tually did so, and that this was then followed by hundreds of thou-
sands of no less improbable coincidences. They imagine that
mutations, which bring living things nothing but lethal diseases such
as cancer, have the power to turn apes into human beings who think,
reason, judge, decide, follow policies, found civilizations, produce
splendid works of art, rejoice, feel sorrow, make friends, raise families,
win Nobel prizes and Oscars—into students who read hundreds of
thousands of printed pages, and into artists, scientists, politicians, ar-
chitects and teachers. They have lost their powers of reason because of
the ideologies they maintain and so blindly support.

It is for that reason that, as the Scandinavian scientist Soren
Lovtrup puts it:
I suppose that nobody will deny that it is a great misfortune if an en-
tire branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this is
what has happened in biology: for a long time now people discuss
evolutionary problems in a peculiar "Darwinian" vocabulary—"adap-
tation," "selection pressure," "natural selection," etc.—thereby believ-
ing that they contribute to the explanation of natural events. They do
not... I believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the

greatest deceit in the history of science. 3

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