You will be greatly disappointed; it will be grievously too hypothetical. It will very likely be of no other service than collocating some facts; though I myself think I see my way approximately on the origin of the species. But, alas, how frequent, how almost universal it is in an author to persuade himself of the truth of his own dogmas. Charles Darwin, 1858, in a letter to a colleague regarding the concluding chapters of his Origin of Species. One of the reasons I started taking this anti-evolutionary 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. Thats quite a shock to learn that one can be so misled so long. ...so for the last few weeks Ive tried putting a simple question to various people and groups of people. Question is: Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing that is true? I tried that 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 there was silence for a long time and eventually one person said, I do know one thing -- it ought not to be taught in high school. Dr. Colin Patterson, Senior Paleontologist, British Museum of Natural History, London Keynote address at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City
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