It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything--or at least they are not science. *George Gaylord Simpson, The Nonprevalence of Humanoids, in Science 143 (1964) p. 770.
We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we lightly to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology. Errol White, Proceedings of the Linnean Society, London 177:8 (1988)
Fundamental truths about evolution have so far eluded us all, and that uncritical acceptance of Darwinism may be counterproductive as well as expedient. Far from ignoring or ridiculing the ground-swell of opposition to Darwinism that is growing, for example, in the United States, we should welcome it as an opprotunity to reexamine our sacred cow more closely. *B. Storehouse, Introduction, in *Michael Pitman, Adam and Evolution (1984), p. 12.
How can one confidently assert that one mechanism rather than another was at the origin of the creation of the plans of [evolutionary] organization, if ones relies entirely upon the imagination to find a solution? Our ignorance is so great that we can not even assign with any accuracy an ancestral stock to the phyla Protozoa, Arthropoda, Mollusca and Vertebrata...From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origins of the phyla, it follows that an explanation of the mechanism in the creative evolution of the fundamental plans is heavily burdened with hypotheses. This should appear as an epigraph* to every book on evolution. *Pierre P. Grasse, Evolution of Living Organisms (1977), p. 178. [*epigraph - a quotation set at the beginning of a literary work.]
The extreme raity of transitional forms in the fossils record persists as the trade secret of paleontology, the evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.
Stephen J. Gould, Natural History, Vol. 86, pgs 22,30 .
The Profusion of Living Fossils - http://www.icr.org/article/774 . An Australian Fossil Insect Bed Resulting from Cataclysmic Destruction - http://www.icr.org/article/474 .
It has been estimated, extrapolating from an average yield of 10-20 fossil insect wings per cubic foot, that there could be some hundreds of millions of fossil insect wings per square mile preserved in this bed.
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