Collin Patterson (atheist and diehard evolutionist to the day he died in 1998) - Paleontologist British Museum of Natural history speaking at the American Museum of Natural History in 1981 - said:
Patterson - quotes Gillespie's arguing that Christians
"'...holding creationist ideas could plead ignorance of the means and affirm only the fact,'"
Patterson countered, "That seems to summarize the feeling I get in talking to evolutionists today. They plead ignorance of the means of transformation, but affirm only the fact (saying): 'Yes it has...we know it has taken place.'"
"...Now I think that many people in this room would acknowledge that during the last few years, if you had thought about it at all, you've experienced a shift from evolution as knowledge
to evolution as faith. I know that's true of me, and I think it's true of a good many of you in here...
"...,Evolution not only conveys no knowledge, but seems somehow to convey
anti-knowledge , apparent knowledge which is actually harmful to systematics..."
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Colin Patterson (Senior paleontologist at the British Natural History Museum and author of the Museum’s general text on evolution) in a talk given at the American Museum of Natural History 1981
Patterson:“
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, and all I got there was silence for a long time and eventually one person said “
I know one thing – it ought not to be taught in high school”
"...I'm speaking on two subjects, evolution and creationism, and I believe it's true to say that I know nothing whatever about either...One of the reasons I started taking this anti-evolutionary view, well, let's call it non-evolutionary , was last year
I had a sudden realization.
"For over twenty years I had thought that I was working on evolution in some way. One morning I woke up, and something had happened in the night, and it struck me that I had been working on this
stuff for twenty years, and there was not one thing I knew about it. "That was quite a shock that one could be misled for so long...
It does seem that the level of knowledge about evolution is remarkably shallow. We know it ought not to be taught in high school, and perhaps that's all we know about it...
about eighteen months ago...I woke up and I realized that all my life
I had been duped into taking evolution as revealed truth in some way."
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You will not find "True confessions" such as that by its own diehard adherents in any real branch of science .. because in the real sciences - the theories are tested "to see if" they are true.
You are totally makling up that baloney Bob. Evolution is proven beyond all possible doubt.
At this point it is unclear whether you are trying to make your point or illustrate mine
Oh, so you refuse to prove your point until I prove mine.
as already stated it is difficult to tell if you are trying to illustrate my point for me on purpose ... or not
