Page 40 - Confessions of the Evolutionists

38 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

British archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes:

I have difficulty in believing that the dazzling beauty in birds, fish, flow-
ers, etc., came about by natural selection. Beyond that, he asks the ques-
tion whether human consciousness can be the product of such a mecha-
nism. In his article, finally, he concludes that the human mind that pro-
duced the blessings of civilization [surely Allah is beyond their claims],
and the creative imagination that immortalized those such as Socrates,
Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Newton and Einstein cannot be the gift
of the law of the jungle called the "struggle for survival" to us. 69
Roger Lewin is a prize-winning author and former news editor of

Science Magazine:
It [natural selection] may have a stabilizing effect, but it does not promote
speciation. It is not a creative force, as many people have suggested. 70

Dr. Colin Patterson a senior palaeontologist at the British Museum of
Natural History:
No one has ever produced a [new] species by mechanisms of natural se-
lection. No one has ever got near it and most of the current argument in
neo-Darwinism is about this question. 71

Arthur Koestler is a Hungarian-born British novelist, journalist,
and critic:
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin
has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random
mutations plus natural selection-quite unaware of the fact that random
mutations have turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection a tautol-
ogy. 72
Pierre Paul Grassé is the former president of the French Academy

of Sciences:
The "evolution in action" of J. Huxley and other biologists is simply the
observation of demographic facts, local fluctuations of genotypes, geo-
graphical distributions. Often the species concerned have remained prac-
tically unchanged for hundreds of centuries! Fluctuation as a result of cir-
cumstances, with prior modification of the genome, does not imply evo-
lution, and we have tangible proof of this in many pan-chronic species. 73