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34 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

Prof. Cemal Yıldırım is a Turkish evolutionist, and professor of

philosophy at Middle East Technical University:
There is no need to query Darwinism's
thesis of natural selection. It moves
away from being a scientific concept to
the extent that it regards the truth as an
evident principle and acquires the na-
ture of an ideological teaching. 55
Geoffrey Clark is an anthropologist
at Arizona State University:
We select among alternative sets of re-
search conclusions in accordance with
our biases and preconceptions-a process
that is, at once, both political and subjec-
Prof. Cemal Yıldırım
tive. [palaeo-anthropology] has the form,
but not the substance of a science. 56
From an address of the evolutionist Greg Kirby at a Biology
Teachers Association meeting:
If you were to spend your life picking up bones and finding little frag-
ments of head and little fragments of jaw, there is a very strong desire
there to exaggerate the importance of those fragments. 57
The words of paleontologist David Raup:
In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable pro-
gressions. In general, these have not been found—yet the optimist has
died hard, and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks. 58
Harvard University biologist and geneticist Dr. Richard Lewontin:
... . . evolution is not a fact, it's a philosophy. The materialism comes first
(a priori), and the evidence is interpreted in light of that unchangeable
philosophical commitment. 59