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Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are are actually teaching science fiction. There are no sure facts.

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HAS EVOLUTION REALLY BEEN A HELP?

Darwin's book - On the Origin of Species - I find quite unsatisfactory: it says nothing about the origin of species; it is written very tentatively, with a special chapter on "Difficulties on theory"; and it includes a great deal of discussion on why evidence for natural selection does not exist in the fossil record.'... 'As a scientist, I am not happy with these ideas. But I find it distasteful for scientists to reject a theory because it does not fit in with their preconceived ideas.''

H. Lipson, FRS (Professor of Physics, University of Manchester, UK), 'Origin of species', in 'Letters', New Scientist, 14 May 1981, p. 452.

'There was little doubt that the star intellectual turn of last week's British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Salford was Dr John Durant, a youthful lecturer from University College Swansea. Giving the Darwin lecture to one of the biggest audiences of the week, Durant put forward an audacious theory -- that Darwin's evolutionary explanation of the origins of man has been transformed into a modern myth, to the detriment of science and social progress.'... Durant concludes that the secular myths of evolution have had "a damaging effect on scientific research", leading to "distortion, to needless controversy, and to the gross misuse of science".'

Dr John Durant (University College Swansea, Wales),as quoted in 'How evolution became a scientific myth', New Scientist, 11 September 1980, p. 765.

'Evolutionism is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless.'

Prof. Louis Bounoure ( Former President of the Biological Society of Strasbourg and Director of the Strasbourg Zoological Museum, later Director of Research at the French National Centre of Scientific Research), as quoted in The Advocate, Thur. 8 March 1984, p. 17.

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'Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we do not have one iota of fact.'

Dr T. N. Tahmision (Atomic Energy Commission, USA) in 'The Fresno Bee', August 20, 1959. As quoted by N. J. Mitchell, Evolution and the Emperor's New Clothes, Roydon publications, UK, 1983, title page.

'I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it's been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has.'

Malcolm Muggeridge (world famous journalist and philosopher), Pascal Lectures, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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