rofessor Virchow, the greatest German authority on physiology, and once a
strong advocate of the theory, has said:

It is all nonsense. It cannot be proved by science that man
descends from the ape or from any other animal. Since the
announcement of the theory, all real scientific knowledge has
proceeded in the opposite direction.

Professor Tyndall, in an article in the "Fortnightly Review," said:

There ought to be a clear distinction made between science in
a state of hypothesis and science in a state of fact. And
inasmuch as it is still in its hypothetical stage, the ban of
exclusion ought to fall upon the theory of evolution. I agree
with Virchow that the proofs of it are still wanting, that
the failures have been lamentable, and that the doctrine has
been utterly discredited.

Prof. L. S. Beal, physiologist and professor of anatomy in King's College,
London, says:

The idea of any relation having been established between the
non-living and the living by a gradual advance from lifeless
matter to the lowest forms of life, and so onward to the
higher and more complex, has not the slightest evidence from
the facts of any section of living nature of which anything
is known.

Professor Zoeckler, of the University of Greifswald, says:

The claim that the hypothesis of descent is scientifically
secured must most decidedly be denied.

DeCyon, the Russian scientist, says:

Evolution is pure assumption.

Prof. George McCready Price says:

In almost every one of the separate sciences the arguments
upon which the theory of evolution gained its popularity a
generation or so ago are now known by the various specialists
to have been blunders, or mistakes, or hasty conclusions of
one kind or another.

And Sir J. William Dawson says:

"The evolution doctrine itself is one of the strangest
phenomena of humanity." It is "a system destitute of any
shadow of proof, and supported merely by vague analogies and
figures of speech, and by the arbitrary and artificial
coherence of its parts." And he concludes that it is
"surpassingly strange" that such a theory should find
adherents.

To this list might be added such names as those of Professor Henslow,
former President of the British Association; Prof. C. C. Everett, of
Harvard; Dr. E. Dennert; Dr. Goette; Prof. Edward Hoppe, the "Hamburg
Savan