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The NAS's Error on Natural Selection

predictions. They are not scientific theories at all. 8
Professor Steven Stanley of Johns Hopkins University has this to say
about natural selection in his book Macroevolution: Pattern and Process:

I tend to agree with those who have viewed natural selection as a tau-
tology rather than a true theory. 9
Karl Popper, regarded as one of the major philosophers of the
twentieth century, cites evolutionists such as Ronald Fisher, J.B.S.
Haldane and George Gaylord Simpson as examples, and says:
Some of the greatest contemporary Darwinists themselves formulate
the theory in such a way that it amounts to the tautology that those
organisms that leave most offspring leave most offspring. 10

Clearly, if someone wishes to learn how a bacterial cell could turn
into a fish, a fish into a bird, and a reptile into a human being, it is no
answer to tell him that "organisms which leave the most offspring are
those which leave most offspring." Natural selection cannot prove any-
thing about the claim that species evolve. Despite being aware of this,

evolutionists play word and logic games and attempt to portray natu-
ral selection and evolution as a logical-sounding hypothesis.
Some evolutionists, such as Gould, are
undecided when it comes to defending
natural selection. Gould expresses that un-
willingness in the words: "I, although I
wear the Darwinian label with some pride,
am not among the most ardent defenders
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of natural selection." Despite being the
person who proposed the theory of natural
selection, Darwin himself offered a rather
prescient analysis: "I shall know that the
theory of Natural Selection, is, in the
main, safe; that it includes, as now put Karl Popper (1902-1994)

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