Dr. W. H. Thompson, former president of N. Y. Academy of Medicine, said: “The Darwinian theory is now rejected by the majority of biologists, as absurdly inadequate. It is absurd to rank man among the animals. His so called fellow animals, the primates—gorilla, orang and chimpanzee—can do nothing truly human.”
Sir William Dawson, an eminent geologist, of Canada, said: “The record of the rocks is decidedly against evolutionists, especially in the abrupt appearance of new forms under specific types, and without apparent predecessors.... Paleontology furnishes no evidence as to the actual transformation of one species into another. No such case is certainly known. Nothing is known about the origin of man except what is told in Scripture.”
The foremost evolutionists, Spencer, Huxley and Romanes, before their death, repudiated Darwinism. Haeckel alone supported the theory and that by forged evidence.
Dr. St. George Mivert, late professor of biology in the University College of Kensington, calls Darwinism a “puerile hypothesis.”
Dr. James Orr, of Edinburg University, says: “The greatest scientists and theologians of Europe are now pronouncing Darwinism to be absolutely dead.”
Dr. Traas, a famous palaeontologist, concludes: “The idea that mankind is descended from any simian species whatever, is certainly the most foolish ever put forth by a man writing on the history of man.” Does this apply to H. G. Wells?
Dr. N. S. Shaler, professor of Geol., in Harvard University, said: “It is not yet proved that a single species of the two or three millions, now inhabiting the earth had been established solely or mainly, by the operation of natural selection.”
Prof. Haeckel, a most extreme evolutionist, confesses: “Most modern investigators of science have come to the conclusion that the doctrine of evolution, and particularly Darwinism, is an error, and can not be maintained.”
Prof. Huxley, said that evolution is “not proved and not provable.”
Sir Charles Bell, Prof, of the University College of London, says: “Everything declares the species to have their origin in a distinct creation, not in a gradual variation from some original type.”