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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 it 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 the species or only with the variation of the species?
It is shocking to find eminent evolutionists admitting that Darwin didn't really address the issue of the origin of the 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 the species in his Origin of the 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).
• "Darwin's book," writes biologist Chris Colby, "was titled The Origin of Species despite the fact that he did not really address this question; over one hundred and fifty years later, how species originate is still largely a mystery" (Introduction to Evolutionary Biology, 1996, online edition).
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