It is admittedly unobservable, lacking fossil evidence, dependent upon scientific consensus, and essentially a belief system about past life on Earth. The following 12 quotes are from leading and well known scientists and researchers. The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution. By doing so we are guilty of circular reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports this theory. Hesperopithecus, the fossil pig's tooth that was cited as evidence of very early man in North America, and Eoanthropus or 'Piltdown Man,' the jaw of an orangutan and the skull of a modern human that were claimed to be the 'earliest Englishman'.
Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man.
There can be no doubt about it. No one denies that natural selection will play a negative role in eliminating the unfit. Darwinian theories require that it create the fit as well. Natural History, vol. And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.