re: #1028 montersj

Whence, then, comes the oft-parroted canard, “Evolution is only a
theory”?

A crowd of difficulties…occur…Some of them are so serious that to this day I can hardly reflect on them without being in some degree staggered… Why, if species have descended from other species by fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transition forms?…How can we account for species, when crossed, being sterile,
and producing sterile offspring, whereas, when varieties are crossed,
their fertility is unimpaired?

The Origin of Species, chap 6, “Difficulties of the Theory,” 158.

It’s another Quote Miner, of course. Here’s the actual context:

LONG before having arrived at this part of my work, a crowd of difficulties will have occurred to the reader. Some of them are so grave that to this day I can never reflect on them without being staggered; but, to the best of my judgment, the greater number are only apparent, and those that are real are not, I think, fatal to my theory.

Why do you creationists do this? You have to know it’s easily checked. You’re just utterly shameless liars.