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This year, 2009, marks Charles Darwin's bicentennial birthday (he was born in 1809) and also the 150th anniversary of his renowned 1859 publication, On the Origin of Species. If you are in school or have taken biology classes, you have probably been bombarded with Darwin's theory of evolution and taught it as true.
The Origin of Species, as the title is often abbreviated, is listed among
the most influential books ever written. "Next to the Bible," anthropologist
Ashley Montagu claims, "no work has been quite as influential, in virtually
every aspect of human thought, as The Origin of Species" (The
Origin of Species, 1958, Mentor edition, quote on the back cover).
However, did this book really deal with the origin of species or only with the variation of species?
It is shocking to find eminent evolutionists admitting that Darwin did not really address the issue of the origin of species. Let's read just a few of these startling admissions by noted scientists.
• "Darwin," notes the famous paleontologist Niles Eldredge, "never really did discuss the origin of species in his On Origin of Species" (Time Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria, 1985, p. 33, emphasis added throughout).
• Writing in the prestigious scientific magazine Nature, Eörs Szathmáry admits: "The origin of species has long fascinated biologists. Although Darwin's major work bears it as a title, it does not provide a solution to the problem" ("When the Means Do Not Justify the Ends," June 24, 1999, online edition).
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