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- Creation: The Fossils Say Yes
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- No one has devoted himself more wholeheartedly than Simpson (Gaylord) to
- what Dobzhansky has called "the mechanistic materialist philosophy
- shared by most of the present establishment in the biological sciences."
- - T. Dobzhansky, Science 175:49
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- Simpson asserts that most paleontologists "find it logical, if not
- scientifically required, to assume that the sudden appearance of a new
- systematic group is not evidience for creation..." -G.G. Simpson, "The
- Major Features of Evolution, Columbia University.
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- Simpson has thus expended considerable effort in attempts to bend and
- twist every facet of evolution theory to explain away the deficiences of
- the fossil record. - Simpson, "The Major Features of Evolution" p 360;
- Tempo and Mode in Evolution pp. 105-124; The Evolution of Life pp.
- 360-376.
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- One needs to be reminded, however, that if evolution is adopted
- as priori principle, it is always possible to imagine auxiliary
- hypotheses-unproved and by nature unprovable-to make it work in any
- specific case. By this process biological evolution degenerates into
- what Thorpe calls one of his "four pillars of unwisdom" --mental
- evolution that is the reslut of random tries preserved by
- reinforcements. -W. Thorpe, New Scientist.
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- In reference to the nature of the record, Arnold has said:
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- It has long been hoped that extinct plants will
- ultimately reveal soem of the stages through which exisiting
- groups have passed during the course of their development, but
- it must freely be admitted that this aspiration has been
- fulfilled to a very slight extent, even though paleobotanical
- research has been in progress for more than one hundred years. -
- C.A. Arnold, "An Introduction To Paleobotany"
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- The following remarks of Professor E.J.H Corner of the Cambridge
- univerity botany school were quite candid:
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- Much evidence can be adduced in favor of the theory of
- evolution - from biology, biogeography, and palentology, but I
- still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of
- plants is in favor of special creation. - Corner, "Contemporary
- Botanical thought", p. 97
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- "In the beginning God Created the Heavens and the earth..."
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