Flawed theory

It has been a number of years since I took a course in anthropology, but as the course progressed and during the ensuing years, I have become increasingly convinced that Darwin's Origin of the Species Philosophy is only grasping after a straw.

I am not alone. Following are a few who take a similar position:

In a letter to Harvard professor Asa Gray, Darwin admits, "I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of science."

Dr. Louis Bounourd, Director of the Zoological Museum and Director of Research at the National Center of Scientific Research in France confessed, "Evolution is a fairy tale for grownups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless."

Steven J. Gould, former Harvard University professor of paleontology says, "The American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. I will lay it on the line, there is not one such fossil for with one could make a watertight argument."

Dr. Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist of British Museum of Natural History, tells of this experience: "One of the reasons I started this anti-evolution view was, it struck me that I had been working on this stuff for twenty years and there was not one thing I knew about it. That's quite a shock to learn that one can be so misled so long, so for several weeks I tried putting a simple question to various groups of people.

The question is: Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, anything that is true? I tried this question on the geology staff at the Field Museum of Natural History and the only answer I got was silence. I tried it on the members of the Evolutionary Morphology Seminar in the University of Chicago, a very prestigious body of evolutionists and all I got was silence for a long time and eventually one person said, "I do know one thing, it ought not to be taught in High Schools!"

Jim Rahenkamp
Avon Park