Quotes

QUOTES:

Philip Skell, (member of the National Academy of Sciences): “Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific hypothesis.”

Mark Johansen asserts that: “out of the ten pseudo-scientific challenges he discussed, the theory of evolution meets nine of them.”

Richards argues: Evolution is based on a godless foundation leaving its proponents naked. To rescue themselves: (Michael Ruse and Robert J. Richards, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethic).

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, in Systems Theory re Evolution:

“The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in ‘hard’ science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds.”

John D. Caputo, in Philosophy and Theology: “Contrary to the myths of scientific positivism, scientists are not pure, bloodless observers, recording information like automated information-gathering systems; they are flesh and blood people with hunches, intuitions, and strong feelings. They do not passively record but actively project.”

Alfred Gierer “Modern science, … claims validity for all events in space and time. However, it also reveals its own limitations, such as the indeterminacy of quantum physics, the limits of decidability, and, presumably, limits of de-codability of the mind-brain relationship.” (Alfred Gierer, Gödel Meets Carnap: A Prototypical Discourse on Science and Religion)

N. T. Wright: “ … the world could cope––with a Jesus who ultimately remains a wonderful idea inside His disciples’ minds and hearts. The world cannot cope with a Jesus who comes out of the tomb, who inaugurates God’s new creation right in the middle of the old one.” (Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church)