InGodITrust writes:
I was under the impression that there was a larger fraction of the scientific community that doubted evolution. I might have got this from a Christian radio program titled "Creation Momments". On this program, they present an argument against evolution, and at times follow up with something like "no wonder more and more scientists have trouble with evolution".
I realise that you're satisfied with the answers you've been given, IGIT, but the phrase you quoted (or paraphrased) there at the end ("no wonder more and more scientists have trouble with evolution") reminded me of something funny. Creationists have always been saying this, and it's getting like a broken record.
For example (my bolds):
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"Today, at the dawn of the new century, nothing is more certain than that Darwinism has lost its prestige among men of science. It has seen its day and will soon be reckoned a thing of the past. A few decades hence when people will look back upon the history of the doctrine of Descent, they will confess that the years between 1860 and 1880 were in many respects a time of carnival; and the enthusiasm which at that time took possession of the devotees of natural science will appear to them as the excitement attending some mad revel." Eberhard Dennert, At the Deathbed of Darwinism, 1904
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"The science of twenty or thirty years ago was in high glee at the thought of having almost proved the theory of biological evolution. Today, for every careful, candid inquirer, these hopes are crushed; and with weary, reluctant sadness does modern biology now confess that the Church has probably been right all the time" - George McCready Price, quoted in J. E. Conant’s The Church The Schools And Evolution (1922)
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"I suspect that the creationist has less mystery to explain away than the wholehearted evolutionist. On the balance of the things that I have both read and discovered for myself I am a creationist, so far as mega-evolution is concerned. By mega-evolution one refers to the origin of kingdoms, phyla, classes and orders, the largest groups in any classification of living things. I concede micro-evolution, of course, which is the origin by evolutionary processes of species, genera, and even families. An increasing number of thoughtful scientists seem to be adopting this view, which I should add is decades old, and far from being original." ~ Evan Shute, Flaws in the Theory of Evolution, (Nutley, New Jersey: Craig Press, 1961)
This page has many more amusing quotes on the same lines:
http://home.entouch.net/dmd/moreandmore.htm
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