"If laboratory science cannot establish a mechanism, and if fossil studies
cannot find the common ancestors and transitional links, then Darwinism fails
as an empirical theory. But Darwinists suppress consideration of that
possibility by invoking a distinction between the 'fact' of evolution and
Darwin's particular theory. Objections based upon the fossil record and the
inadequacy of the Darwinist mechanism go only to the theory, they argue.
Evolution itself (the logical explanation for relationships) remains a fact,
by which they seem to mean it is an inescapable deduction from the fact of
relationship." (Phillip E. Johnson, DOT2, p. 66)
"There's no evidence for any of the basic tenets of Darwinian evolution. I
don't believe that there ever was any evidence for it. It was a social force
that took over the world in 1860, and I think it has been a disaster for
science ever since." (Chandra Wickramasinghe, "Science and the Divine Origin
of Life," in The Intellectuals Speak Out About God, Regnery, 1984, p. 30)
"I think that promissory materialism is still a principal belief of the
scientists. But it is promissory: that everything will be explained, even
intimate forms of human experience in terms of nerve endings....This is simply
a religious belief, not even a religious belief; it is a superstition based
upon no evidence worth considering at all." (Sir John Eccles, "Modern Biology
and the Belief in God," Ibid., p. 50)
Jim