I admit that an awful lot of that [imaginary stories] has gotton into the textbooks as though it were true. For instance, the most famous example on horse evolution prepared perhaps fifty years ago. That has been presented as literal truth in textbook after textbook. Now I think that is lamentable, particularly because the people who propose theses kinds of stories themselves may be aware of the speculative nature of some of this stuff. But by the time it filters down to the textbooks, we've got science as truth and we've got a problem.
Niles Eldridge interviewed in Darwin's Enigma by Luther Sunderland, p. 78
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.]
Resolution for Equitable Treatment of both Creation and Evolution - http://www.icr.org/article/72
Introducing Creationism into Public Schools - http://www.icr.org/article/66
Evolution, Creation, and the Public Schools - http://www.icr.org/article/48
From Evolution to Creation: A Personal Testimony - http://www.icr.org/article/95
Creation Science and the Local School District - http://www.icr.org/article/149
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