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32 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

Chandra Wickramasinghe is professor of applied mathematics and

astronomy at Cardiff University and director of the Cardiff Centre for
Astrobiology:
From my earliest training as a scientist, I was very strongly brainwashed
to believe that science cannot be consistent with any kind of deliberate
creation. That notion has had to be painfully shed. At the moment, I can't
find any rational argument to knock down the view which argues for con-
version to God. We used to have an open mind; now we realize that the
only logical answer to life is creation-and not accidental random shuf-
fling. 46

Professor Fred Hoyle was a British astronomer and a mathemati-
cian at Cambridge University:
Indeed, such a theory (that life was assembled by an intelligence) is so ob-
vious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evi-
dent. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific. 47

François Jacob is professor of cell genetics and winner of the 1965
Nobel Prize for Medicine:
All these debates raise serious questions,
heading the list of which is; is it really
possible to develop a concept of evolution
independent of biologists' preconcep-
tions? 48
Dr. Michael Walker is an anthropolo-
gist at the University of Sidney in
Australia:

One is forced to conclude that many sci-
entists and technologists pay lip-service
to Darwinian theory only because it sup-
posedly excludes a Creator. 49
Robert Shapiro is professor emeritus Fran ço is Ja cob
and senior research scientist in the
Department of Chemistry at New York University:
Another evolutionary principle is therefore needed to take us across the
gap from mixtures of simple natural chemicals to the first effective repli-