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Evolution has become in a sense a scientific religion and many scientists are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit with it.

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IS EVOLUTION FACT OR FAITH?

"You will be greatly disappointed (by the forthcoming book); it will be grieviously too hypothetical. It will very likely be of no other service than collocating some facts; though I myself think I see my way approximately on the origin of the spicies. But, alas, how frequent, how almost universal it is in an author to persuade himself of the truth of his own dogmas."

Charles Darwin, 1858, in a letter to a colleague regarding the concluding chapters of his Origin of Species. As quoted in "John Lofton's Journal, The Washington Times, 8 February 1984

"In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it."

H.S. Lipson, FRS (Professor of Physics, University of Manchester, UK), "A physicist looks at evolution". Physics bulletin, vol.31, 1980, p.138

"The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory - is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof."

L. Harrison Matthews, FRS, Introduction to Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London 1971, p. xi.

"One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not yet been written."

Hubert P. Yockey (Army Pulse Radiation Facility, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA), 'A calculation of the probability of spontaneous biogenesis by information theory'. Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol 67, 1977, p. 396.

"With the failure of these many efforts science was left in the somewhat embarrassing position of having to postulate theories of living origins which it could not demonstrate. After having chided the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create a mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past."

Loren Eiseley, Ph.D. (anthropology), 'The secret of life' inThe Immense Journey, Random House, New York, 1957, p. 199.

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