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36 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

not turn into a horse, for instance. Deer always remain deer, no matter

how swift.
Consequently, it is not possible for natural selection to make a living
thing evolve. Evolutionists are aware of this and starting with Darwin
himself, have many times admitted that natural selection cannot cause
new species to develop, much less new life forms.
Charles Darwin:
Is it possible that an animal having, for instance, the structure and habits
of a bat, could have been formed by the modification of some other ani-
mal with widely different habits and structure? Can we believe that nat-
ural selection could produce, on the one hand, an organ of trifling impor-
tance, such as the tail of a giraffe, which serves as a fly-flapper, and, on the
other hand, an organ so wonderful as the eye? 60
I shall know that the theory of Natural Selection, is, in the main, safe; that
it includes, as now put forth, many errors, is almost certain, though I can-
not see them. 61
The late Stephen Jay Gould was a professor of geology and pale-
oanthropology at Harvard University and the main spokesman for evo-
th
lution in the second half of the 20 century:
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's
argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history,
yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection. We
view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we pro-
fess to study. 62
The essence of Darwinism lies in a single phrase: natural selection is the
creative force of evolutionary change. No one denies that selection will
play a negative role in eliminating the unfit. Darwinian theories require
that it create the fit as well. 63
Prof. Cemal Yıldırım is a Turkish evolutionist, and professor of

philosophy at Middle East Technical University:
Yet various aspects of natural selection have never managed to avoid be-
ing the subject of debate, neither today nor when it was first put forward.
We know that theologians on the one hand and also biologists find evo-
lution unsatisfying as an explanation. 64