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“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.”
   - Professor Steven J. Gould, Harvard University

“I will lay it on the line – there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.”
    -  Dr. Colin Patterson, British Museum of Natural History

“It is a mistake to believe that even one fossil species… can be demonstrated to have been ancestral to another.”
    - Dr. Gareth J. Nelson, American Museum of Natural History

"Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic"
  - Todd, S.C., correspondence to Nature 401(6752):423, 30 Sept. 1999.

‘Although at the beginning the paradigm was worth consideration, now the entire effort in the primeval soup paradigm is self-deception on the ideology of its champions.’

‘The history of science shows that a paradigm, once it has achieved the status of acceptance (and is incorporated in textbooks) and regardless of its failures, is declared invalid only when a new paradigm is available to replace it. Nevertheless, in order to make progress in science, it is necessary to clear the decks, so to speak, of failed paradigms. This must be done even if this leaves the decks entirely clear and no paradigms survive. It is a characteristic of the true believer in religion, philosophy and ideology that he must have a set of beliefs, come what may (Hoffer, 1951). Belief in a primeval soup on the grounds that no other paradigm is available is an example of the logical fallacy of the false alternative. In science it is a virtue to acknowledge ignorance. This has been universally the case in the history of science as Kuhn (1970) has discussed in detail. There is no reason that this should be different in the research on the origin of life.’
  - Hubert P. Yockey, 1992 (a non-creationist). Information Theory and Molecular Biology, Cambridge University Press, UK, p. 336.

‘Christianity has fought, still fights, and will continue to fight science to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the Son of God. If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing.’
  - G. Richard Bozarth, ‘The Meaning of Evolution’, American Atheist, p. 30. 20 September 1979.