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Evolution is the opposite of progress. - Emil C. Alain (1868-1951)

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? --Milton Berl

Nearly all the "skulls," out of which Missing Links and Monkey Men have been made, have been only bits of bone. I do know that even of these bits of bone there are only about two or three in the whole world. But as long as those bits of bone were supposed to point, like the pebbles in the fairy-tale, along a particular path, a very gradual upward path of evolution, a scientific progress, nobody dared to suggest that such evidence was rather slight. Nobody ventured to complain that one skull was insufficient, or that one scrap of one skull was insufficient. Any minute bit of any mouldy bone was good enough for the purpose, so long as the evolutionists recognised it as a good purpose. Anything proved anything, so long as it proved the proper, progressive, really evolutionary thing.
G K Chesterton {"Outlines of History," The Illustrated London News, 13 January 1923}

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into anything.
G K Chesterton {Saint Thomas Aquinas, Garden City, NY: Doubleday Image, 1933, p. 174}

We have heard much of late of something called Emergent Evolution; a phrase which, like many scientific phrases, we may find rather useful so long as we do not use it scientifically. Evolution as explanation, as an ultimate philosophy of the cause of living things, is still faced with the problem of producing rabbits out of an empty hat; a process commonly involving some hint of design. --G.K. Chesterton 1874 - 1936

"Bosh," answered Grant. "I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of man they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now that they talk about the survival of the fittest they think they do understand it, whereas they have not merely no notion, they have an elaborately false notion of what the words mean. The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
Basil Grant in >The Club of Queer Trades<, in a story by G.K. Chesterton

In all the multiplicity of knowledge there is one thing happily that no man knows: whether the world is old or young.-- Chesterton 'The Defendant.'

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.
Richard Dawkins

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.--A: Dawkins, Richard (1941-) _The Blind Watchmaker_ (1986) ch. 11

Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those newfangled theories.--Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)_Speech at Oxford Diocesan Conference_, [November 25, 1864

Darwinian Man, though well-behaved,
At best is only a monkey shaved.
W. S. Gilbert, Psyche's Song, Princess Ida, Act II
I am more interested in the Rock of Ages than the ages of rocks. From the play Inherit the Wind

Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation and that is unthinkable. - Sir Arthur Keith

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there? -- C S Lewis--Encounter with Light

If Darwin´s theory of Evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can-opener by now. --C.S. Lewis

Maddox's Third Law
Just as nature is supposed to abhor a vacuum, so scientific opinion abhors questions unlikely to be answered soon, whence the general belief that the origin of the Universe is now nearly understood. -- John Maddox

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun. -- Ernst Mayr

...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently. --Ernst Mayr

In the Beginning, the Big Bang emitted Chaos; and the Chaos was without form, and void, for it was homogeneous and isotropic. And the Singularity moved upon the face of the Chaos and emitted light; and the Universe was no longer homogeneous, for the light was divided from the darkness. And there came forth firmaments and dry land and seas and stars and moons; and the worlds brought forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit trees yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself. It is quite literally true that if you can believe that, you can believe anything; more, you must believe anything. To exclude anything you must make an act of faith. -- Jerry Pournelle, _A Step Farther Out_, 1979

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. --Jonathan Swift

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce The Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. --Robert Wilensky