Talk:Arthur Keith

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Fake quote

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

This quote was allegedly taken from the foreward Keith wrote in the 100th anniversary edition of Darwin's Origin of Speciesin 1959. This is false. He wrote an introduction to an edition of this book, but that was nearly 30 years before. Keith died in 1955. This quote is nothing more than a fabrication by creationists.

For more info: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/part1-4.html#quote81

[edit] removed quote

Since the quote does appear to be fake, and since no one's been able to come up with any citation for it since April, I've removed it.

  • This quote has been put back into the article. The source listed is http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/238, which does not directly cite the quote but only cites another work (by W.A. Criswell, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and believer in Biblical inerrancy) that referenced this quote--that is to say, there is no direct citation of the quote itself. Given the agendas of apologeticspress and Criswell, given the apparent debunking of the quote in the talkorigins page listed above, and given the plain fact that the citation for the quote in this article is in no way a direct citation of the quote itself, it appears that this needs to be removed again, which I will now do. It would seem advisable to keep an eye out for it returning to this article in the future, as it appears to be an oft-cited quote by those whose agenda it supports. G-my 00:01, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References!!!!

All the quotes must have appropriate references!!!! Ljohank 21:33, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

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