"I may be permitted to say, as some excuse, that I had two distinct objects in view; firstly, to show that species had not been separately created, and secondly, that natural selection had been the chief agent of change...
    Hence, if I have erred in giving to natural selection great power, I have at least ... done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations."

Charles R. Darwin,
"The Descent of Man," bound in one volume with "The Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life," [1871], Modern Library, Random House: New York, nd., pp.441-442


 

"If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life all at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of descent with slow modification through natural selection."

 "'Survival of the fittest' and 'natural selection'. No matter what phraseology one generates, the basic fact remains the same: any physical change of any size, shape or form is strictly the result of purposeful alignment of billions of nucleotides (in the DNA).
    
    Nature or species do not have the capacity to rearrange them nor to add to them. Consequently no leap can occur from one species to another.
    
    The only way we know for a DNA to be altered is through a meaningful intervention from an outside source of intelligence - one who know what it is doing, such as our genetic engineers are now performing in the laboratories"

I. L. Cohen,
Officer of the Archaeological Institute of America. Member New York Academy of Sciences. "Darwin Was Wrong - A Study in Probabilities" New Research Publications, Inc., p. 209

 "No one has yet witnessed, in the fossil record, in real life, or in computer life, the exact transitional moments when natural selection pumps its complexity up to the next level.
    There is a suspicious barrier in the vicinity of species that either holds back this critical change or removes it from our sight."

 "But how do you get from nothing to such an elaborate something if evolution must proceed through a long sequence of intermediate stages, each favored by natural selection?
    
    You can't fly with 2% of a wing ... How, in other words, can natural selection explain these incipient stages of structures that can only be used (as we now observe them) in much more elaborated forms?
    
    ... one point stands high above the rest: the dilemma of incipient stages. Mivart identified this problem as primary and it remains so today."

"The non-utility of specific characters is the point on which Natural Selection as a theory of the origin of species is believed to fail"
Professor D.H. Scott, Extinct Plants, p. 22

 

"No recognized case of Natural Selection really selecting has been observed"
Professor Vernon Kellogg, Evolution, p.91

 

It is easy enough to make up stories, of how one form gave rise to another, and to find reasons why the stages should be favored by natural selection. But such stories are not part of science, for there is no way of putting them to the test."

"In other words, it's Natural Selection or a Creator. There is no middle ground.
    This is why prominent Darwinists like G. G. Simpson and Stephen Jay Gould, who are not secretive about their hostility to religion, cling so vehemently to natural selection.
    To do otherwise would be to admit the probability that there is design in nature—and hence a Designer."