Stephen E. Jones

Creation/Evolution Quotes: Molecular

Molecular & Cellular:

1. Molecular findings have weakened Neo-Darwinism
• "The molecular assault came first"

Molecular & Cellular:

1. Molecular findings have weakened Neo-Darwinism
• "The molecular assault came first"

"I well remember how the synthetic theory beguiled me with its unifying power when I was a graduate student in the mid-1960's. Since then I have been watching it slowly unravel as a universal description of evolution. The molecular assault came first, followed quickly by renewed attention to unorthodox theories of speciation and by challenges at the level of macroevolution itself. I have been reluctant to admit it-since beguiling is often forever-but if Mayr's characterization of the synthetic theory is accurate, then that theory, as a general proposition, is effectively dead, despite its persistence as textbook orthodoxy." (Gould, Stephen J. [Professor of Zoology and Geology, Harvard University, USA], "Is a new and general theory of evolution emerging?," Paleobiology, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1980, pp.119-130, p.120). [top]

* Authors with an asterisk against their name are believed not to be evolutonists.