Jonathan Wells > Quotes

“Ewww... intelligent design people! They're just buck-toothed, Bible-pushing nincompoops with community-college degrees who're trying to sell a gussied-up creationism to a cretinous public! No need to address their concerns or respond to their arguments. They are Not Science. They are poopy-heads. There. I just saved you the trouble of reading 90 percent of the responses to the ID position... This is how losers act just before they lose: arrogant, self-satisfied, too important to be bothered with substantive refutation, and disdainful of their own faults... The only remaining question is whether Darwinism will exit gracefully, or whether it will go down biting, screaming, censoring, and denouncing to the bitter end.
— Tech Central Station contributor Douglas Kern, 2005”
― Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

“The controversy between Darwinism and intelligent design has the characteristics of major scientific revolutions in the past. Darwinists are losing power because they treat with contempt the very people on whom they depend the most: American taxpayers. The outcome of this scientific revolution will be decided by young people who have the courage to question dogmatism and follow the evidence wherever it leads.”
― Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

“The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience shows that intelligence is the only presently acting cause of information, we can infer that intelligence is the best explanation for the information in DNA.”
― Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

“Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students 'the full range of scientific views' about Darwinian evolution.”
― Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

“If Darwinists are opposed to mentioning scientific problems with their view, you would think they would be even more opposed to mentioning intelligent design. Yet Darwinists have been discussing ID in public school science classes for years... Biology textbooks have been mentioning intelligent design since the late 1990s—but only to misrepresent and disparage it.”
― Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

“The many meanings of 'evolution' are frequently exploited by Darwinists to distract their critics. Eugenie Scott recommends: 'Define evolution as an issue of the history of the planet: as the way we try to understand change through time. The present is different from the past. Evolution happened, there is no debate within science as to whether it happened, and so on... I have used this approach at the college level.'
Of course, no college student—indeed, no grade-school dropout— doubts that 'the present is different from the past.' Once Scott gets them nodding in agreement, she gradually introduces them to 'The Big Idea' that all species—including monkeys and humans—are related through descent from a common ancestor... This tactic is called 'equivocation'—changing the meaning of a term in the middle of an argument.”
― Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

“ليس البحث عن الحق هدفا نبيلا فحسب، وانما هو امر نافع للغاية، فعندما يزودنا باقرب شيء نملكه انتهاء بفهم صحيح للعالم الطبيعي، فان العلم يكون قد اتاح لنا حياة اكثر امانا و صحة و انتاجا، و لو لم يكن العلم هو البحث عن الحق، فما كان لجسورنا تحمل الاوزان التي نضعها فوقها، و ما كان لاعمارنا ان تطول، و ما كان للحضارة التقنية ان توجد.
و في المقابل، نجد ان رواية القصص عمل انساني لا يقل اهمية، فدون القصص لن تتحصل على اية ثقافة، لكننا لا نستدعي رواة القصص لبناء الجسور او اجراء العمليات الجراحية، اذ نفضل لهذه المهام اشخاصا قد تمرسوا في فهم حقائق المعادن و الابدان”
― Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong

“There never was a war between religion and empirical science, but there is a war between religion and”
― Jonathan Wells, Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution

“و مع ذلك، و بينما كنت انتهي من الدكتوراه في البيولوجيا النمائية و الخلوية، لاحظت ان كل المراجع المتعلقة بالبيولوجيا التطورية تحتوي على تزوير فاضح؛ رسومات اجنة الفقاريات المنشورة، تظهر تشابهات يفترض انها دليلا على الانحدار من سلف مشترك، و لكني كمختص في علم الاجنة كنت اعلم ان تلك الرسومات مزيفة. ليس فقط حرفوا الاجنة التي عرضوها، بل ايضا اغفلوا ذكر المراحل المتقدمة التي تبدوا الاجنة فيها مختلفة عن بعضها البعض”
― Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong

“هذا النمط مستمر، و يشير الى اكثر من مجرد خطا عادي. فهو على اقل تقدير، يشير الى ان الداروينية تشجع على تحريف الحقيقة. عدد التحريفات التي حدثت بدون قصد، و عدد التيحدثت عن عمد، يظل امرا يستحق النظر. ولكن النتيجة واضحة؛ الطلاب و العامة يتم امدادهم، بشكل ممنهج، بالمعلومات الخاطئة حول ادلة التطور”
― Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong