Norman Macbeth Quotes

• When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who cannot explain it will not admit that it is inexplicable. This is a strange situation, only partly ascribable to the rather unscientific conviction that evidence will be found in the future. It is due to a psychological quirk [in the minds of its advocates].

  Norman Macbeth

  Giving, Mind, Strange

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• Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses.

  Norman Macbeth

  Dream, Suggestions, Matter

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• Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed.

  Norman Macbeth

  Practice, Tree, Purpose

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• After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that if a thousand mutations were combined in one specimen, there would still be no new species.

  Norman Macbeth

  Years, Fruit Flies, Despair

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• Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.

  Norman Macbeth

  Mean, Problem, Natural

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• Esto no significa que la profesión esté a punto de abandonar a Darwin para siempre o de respaldar [sic] públicamente mis opiniones. La situación sigue siendo muy parecida a la de antes: en los círculos internos hay muchas dudas, pero en las declaraciones públicas hay confianza. Las dudas pueden ser mayores ahora y la confianza menos serena, pero pasará mucho tiempo antes de que el público conozca el oscuro panorama completo. Todavía se necesita una voz disidente, un abogado del diablo, un denunciante escéptico.

  Norman Macbeth

  Mean, Dark, Circles

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• The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.

  Norman Macbeth

  Two Sides, Definitions, Tautology

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• The simplest case, where one is informed that a cat is black because it is black, may be harmless, though irritating and useless; but the actual cases [in statements of evolutionary theory] are always harder to detect than this, and may darken counsel for a long time.

  Norman Macbeth

  Cat, Long, Black

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