The Origin of Specious Nonsense. Twelve years on. Still going. Answer soon.

J C wrote: »

I never said that these people think that Evolution is bunk ... they clearly are Evolutionists ... but they have serious doubts over how and whether it occurs like the modern synthesis suggests it does.

J C wrote: »

Darwin proposed evolution without evidence ... and Spontaneous Evolution still continues to be proposed without evidence to this very day.

Arthur Keith (1866 — 1955) Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

"Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable."

Spurious Quotation

This quote is utilized in publications and websites in an attempt to demonstrate that Sir Arthur Keith, simply dismiss creationist viewpoints outright due to a presumed antitheistic bias.[13] However, in attempting to research this statement, one finds that it usually appears without primary source documentation.[14] In those instances where seemingly original documentation is provided, it is stated to be a Forward for a centennial edition or “100th edition” of Origin of Species.[15] However, several facts show that the attribution of these words to Arthur Keith is erroneous.
Keith died in 1955, some four years before the 100th anniversary of Darwin’s work, so that he was clearly not available to write an introduction for the centennial edition (this was actually done by William Robin Thompson).[16] Furthermore, while Keith did write an introduction to earlier printings of Origin of Species, in use from 1928 to 1958, the words given above do not appear in that introduction.[17] Finally, the last “edition” of Origin of Species is the sixth edition published 1879.[18] It is for this reason that all later publications of Origin of Species are actually reprints of this or earlier editions so that there is simply no “100th edition” of Darwin’s work. In light of the fact that the documentation provided by Creationist publications is specious, one is still left with trying to explain the source of this citation. It is enough to say, however, that since this “quote” lacks valid documentation, it should not be regarded as one that originates with Arthur Keith himself until it can be properly documented.[19]

He was an atheist and an evolutionist ... but when he discovered the levels of CFSI in living organisms he couldn't bear the cognitive dissonance of continuing to be an Evolutionist and he became an intelligent design advocate instead !!!!:eek::)
...and Dr John C Stanford is not just some 'common or garden' Horticulturalist :-
Quote Wikipedia:-
(Dr) Sanford graduated in 1976 from the University of Minnesota with a BSc in horticulture. He went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he received an MSc in 1978 and a PhD in 1980 in plant breeding/plant genetics. Between 1980 and 1986 Sanford was an assistant professor of Horticultural Sciences at Cornell University, and from 1986 to 1998 he was an associate professor of Horticultural Science. Although retiring in 1998, Sanford continues at Cornell as a courtesy associate professor. He held an honorary Adjunct Associate Professor of Botany at Duke University. Sanford has published over 70 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals.

Inventions
Sanford is a prolific inventor with more than 32 issued patents. At Cornell Sanford and colleagues developed the "Biolistic Particle Delivery System" or so-called "gene gun". He is the co-inventor of the Pathogen-derived Resistance (PDR) process and the co-inventor of the genetic vaccination process. He was given the "Distinguished Inventor Award" by the Central New York Patent Law Association in 1990 and 1995. He has founded two biotechnology companies, Sanford Scientific and Biolistics. In 1998 he retired on the proceeds from the sale of his biotech companies, and continued at Cornell as a courtesy associate professor."

J C wrote: »

The quote is valid allright ... and here is a quote along a similar vein from another Evolutionist, Dr Richard Lewontin (b. 1929) PhD Zoology Alexander Agassiz Research Professor at Harvard University
"Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. " Review of Carl Sagan’s posthumously published book, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" The New York Review, January 9 1997.
http://www.drjbloom.com/Public%20files/Lewontin_Review.htm

... Spontaneous Evolution is not the current scientific understanding regarding how Humans came to be ... it is the current materialistic explanation (and a very shaky one indeed) for how Humans came to be.