Evolution Quotes
Fossil Record
All paleontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt
Stephen Gould – Most famous evolutionist
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution.
Stephen Gould
I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. You suggest that an artist should be used to visualize such transformations, but where would he get the information from? I could not, honestly, provide it, and if I were to leave it to artistic license, would that not mislead the reader? I wrote the text of my book four years ago. If I were to write it now, I think the book would be rather different. Gradualism is a concept I believe in, not just because of Darwin’s authority, but because my understanding of genetics seems to demand it. Yet Gould and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. As a paleontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record. You say that I should at least “show a photo of the fossil from which each type of organism was derived.” I will lay it on the line – there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.
Dr Colin Patterson. Senior Paleontologist at world renowned British Museum of Natural History
We take the side of science in spite of the patent obsurdity of some of its constructs… In spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment to materialism… Moreover, that materialism is absolute for we cannot allow a Divine foot in the door.
Richard Lewontin – World famous evolutionist and professor of genetics
Information
A code system is always the result of a mental process… It should be emphasized that matter as such is unable to generate any code. All experiences indicate that a thinking being voluntarily exercising his own free will, cognition, and creativity, is required. There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this.
Dr. Werner Gitt – World Leader in the field of Information Science.
Mutations
All point mutations that have been studied on the molecular level turn out to reduce the genetic information and not to increase it.
Dr Lee Spetner
The Neo Darwinian theory is supposed to explain how the information of life gas been built up by evolution. The essential difference between a human and a bacterium is in the information they contain. All other biological differences follow from that. The human genome has much more information than does the bacterial genome. Information cannot be built up by mutations that lose it. A business can’t make money by losing it a little at a time.
Dr Spetner
Origin of life
Now imagine 1050 blind persons [that's 100,000 billion billion billion billion billion people - standing shoulder to shoulder, they would more than fill our entire planetary system] each with a scrambled Rubik cube and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form.
You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling [random variation] of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial soup here on Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.
Sir Fred Hoyle