Page 32 - Confessions of the Evolutionists

30 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

Paul Lemoine, a former director of the National Museum of

Natural History in Paris:
The theories of evolution in which our student youth was cradled consti-
tute a dogma that all the world continues to teach. But each in his own
specialty, zoologist or botanist, comes to the conclusion that none of the
available explanations is adequate... The result of this summary is that the
theory of evolution is impossible. 39
Norman Macbeth, a Harvard-trained lawyer, has made the study of
Darwinian theory his avocation for many years:
Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As
a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are sugges-
tions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses. 40
Prof. Cemal Yıldırım, a Turkish evolutionist, is professor of phi-
losophy at Middle East Technical University and visiting scholar at
California State University in Northridge:
No scientist, whether be Darwinist or neo-Darwinist, can suggest the no-
tion that the theory of evolution is proven. 41
That's right, evolution theory is not proven. 42

It is far from being convincing to attribute this order in living things,
which seems to have a particular purpose, to chance or coincidence. 43

C. D. Darlington, an English biologist, geneticist and director of
the John Innes Centre:
Gradually, we are told, step by step, men produced the arts and crafts, this
and that, until they emerged in the light of history... Those soporific words
"gradually" and "step-by-step" repeated incessantly, are aimed at covering
an ignorance which is both vast and surprising. One should like to in-
quire: Which steps? But then one is lulled, overwhelmed and stupefied by
the gradualness of it all, which is at best a platitude, only good for paci-
fying the mind, since no one is willing to imagine that civilization ap-
peared in a thunderclap. 44
Eric Bapteste, an evolutionary biologist at the Pierre and Marie

Curie University in Paris, France explains how Darwin’s tree-of-life
concept is obsolete and needs to be discarded:
We have no evidence at all that the tree of life is a reality. 45