Quotes and Misquotes of Michael Denton

• From "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis".
  • Quoted: Tue Mar 09 1993 14:41:00 By: Barbara Brasfield

    "Neither of the two fundamental axioms of Darwin's macroevolutionary theory - the concept of the continuity of nature, that is the functional continuum of all life forms linking all species together and ultimately leading back to a primeval cell, and the belief that all the adaptive design of life has resulted from a blind random process - have been validated by one single empirical discovery or scientific advance since 1859. Despite more than a century of intensive effort on the part of evolutionary biologists, the major objections raised by Darwin's critics such as Agassiz, Pictet, Bronn and Richard Owen have not been met. The mind must still fill up the 'large blanks' that Darwin acknowledged in his letter to Asa Gray."