Recommended Reading

All Creationists should be thankful for the Institute of Creation Research. In my opinion no other organization even comes close to producing pertinent books on the subject of Creation vs. Evolution.

Their latest achievement is a book entitled "That Their Words May Used Against Them," compiled by Dr. Henry Morris. This book has over 450 pages of quotations by evolutionists; many of them are very recent and all of them are properly referenced. Listed below are a sampling of some of these quotations:

Charles Darwin on fossils: "The number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed must be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory [of evolution.] Origin of Species, 6th edition, 1902 p. 341-342.

Dr. David Raup: "We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition today than we had in Darwin’s time," Field Museum of Natural History, vol 50, Jan 1979, p. 25.

Dr. Mark Ridley: "No real evolutionist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of the theory of evolution as opposed to special creation." New Scientist, June 25, 1981, p. 831.

Dr. Steven Stanley: "Evolution happens rapidly in small, localized populations, so we’re not likely to see it in the fossil record." Bioscience, vol. 36 (Dec 1986) p. 725.

Dr. Douglas Erwin: "All of the basic architectures of animals were apparently established by the close of the Cambrian explosion (530 million years ago according to evolutionists); subsequent evolutionary changes, even those that allowed animals to move out of the sea onto land, involved only modifications of those basic body plans." American Scientist, March/April 1997, p. 126.

Dr. Richard Dawkins regarding the "Cambrian Explosion": "It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history. Needless to say this appearance of sudden planting has delighted creationists." The Blind Watchmaker, 1987, p. 229.

Dr. D.M.S. Watson: "Evolution is accepted not because it can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible." Nature, Aug 10, 1929, p. 233

Dr. Christopher Wills: "If viruses had a common origin, then one would expect to see intermediates between the various morphological forms. No such intermediates have been found." Science, Oct 18, 1974, p 251.

Dr. Charles Beck: "The mystery of the origin and early evolution of the angiosperms (flowering plants) is as pervasive and as fascinating today as it was when Darwin emphasized in it 1879. We have no definitive answers." Origin and Evolution of Angiosperms, 1976.

Prof. E.J. Corner Cambridge University: "To the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation." Contemporary Botanical Thought, p. 97, 1961.

Dr. Gerald Todd on Fishes: "How did they originate? What allowed them to diverge so widely? And why is there no trace of earlier intermediate forms? American Zoologist, vol 20, 1980 p.757.

Dr. Robert L. Carroll: "We have no intermediate fossils between fish and amphibians." Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1988 p. 138.

Dr. Grant Smith: "The discovery of living fossils such as the Metasequoia and the crossorterygian fish Latimeria, once thought to be extinct for tens of millions of years, are reminders of how much we have to discover." Journal of Geological Education, May 1988, p.143.

Lewis L. Carroll: "Unfortunately not a single specimen of an appropriate reptilian ancestor is known prior to the appearance of true reptiles. The absence of such ancestral forms leaves many problems of the amphibian-reptilian transition unanswered." Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol 44 1969, p.393.

Dr. Alfred S. Romer: "The origin of rodents is obscure…no transitional forms are known." Vertebrate Paleontology, 1966, p. 303.

Dr. Edwin Colbert: "Unfortunately, the fossil history of the snakes is very fragmentary, so that it is necessary to infer much of their evolution form the comparative anatomy of modern forms." Evolution of the Vertebrates, 1991, p 223.

Dr. Alan Feduccia on birds: "A search for ancestors in the fossil record is not likely to prove fruitful." American Scientist, May/June 1978 p. 302.

Boyce Rensberger: "The popularly told example of horse evolution, suggesting a gradual sequence of changes from four-toed fox-sized creatures living 50 million years ago to today’s much larger one-toed horse, has long known to be wrong. Instead of gradual change, fossils of each intermediate species appear fully distinct, persist unchanged, and then become extinct. Transitional forms are unknown." Houston Chronicle, 5 Nov 1980, p 15.

Dr Robert Martin: "Overall, the fossil record can tell us very little about the early origins of Old World monkeys." Primate Origins and Evolution", 1990, p.69.

Dr. Matt Cartmill: "A myth, says my dictionary, is a real or fictional story that embodies the cultural ideals of a people or expresses deep, commonly felt emotions. By this definition, myths are generally good things – and the origin stories that paleoanthropologists (people who study man like fossils) tell are necessarily myths." Natural History November 1983, p. 77.

Please note: According to these few quotes, Evolutionists admit there is no evidence that viruses, plants, reptiles, birds, rodents, fish, amphibians, snakes, horses, monkeys and humans evolved.