"It cannot be denied that from a strictly philosophical standpoint, geologists here are arguing in a circle. The succession of organisms has been determined by a study of their remains buried in the rocks, and the relative ages of the rocks are determined by the remains of organisms that they contain" -- Article "Geology" in Encyclopedia Britannica, 1956 Vol. 10 | "Gaps among known orders, classes and phyla are systematic and almost always large." -- George Gaylord Simpson, Ph.D. |
"The missing link between man and the apes, whose absence has comforted religious fundamentalists since the days of Darwin is merely the most glamorous of a whole hierarchy of phantom creatures. In the fossil record, missing links are the rule" -- "Is Man the Subtle Accident?" Newsweek, November 3, 1980, p 93 | "Toward the end of his life, Darwin openly admitted: "Not one change of species into another is on record ... We cannot prove that a single species has changed into another" -- Charles Darwin, My Life and Letters Vol. 1 Page 210 |
