Darwin’s Myth

                                                                                                                          Vol. XVIII, No. 4, April 2005

 


I suppose that nobody will deny that it is a great misfortune if an entire branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this is what has happened in biology: for a long time now people discuss evolutionary problems in a peculiar 'Darwinian' vocabulary -- 'adaptation, ' ' selection pressure, ' ' natural selection,' etc. -- thereby believing that they contribute to the explanation of natural events. They do not, and the sooner this is discovered, the sooner we shall be able to make real progress in our understanding of evolution.

I believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science"

 

[Lovtrup, Soren, Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth (New York: Croom Helm, 1987), p. 422]