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Professor Virchow, the greatest German authority on physiology, and once a strong advocate of the theory, has said:
- It is all nonsense. It cannot be proved by science that man descends from the ape or from any other animal. Since the announcement of the theory, all real seientific knowledge has proceeded in the opposite direction.
Professor Tyndall, in an article in the "Fortnightly Review," said:
- There ought to be a clear distinction made between science in a state of hypothesis and science in a state of fact. And inasmuch as it is still in its hypothetical stage, the ban of exclusion ought to fall upon the theory of evolution. I agree with Virchow that the proofs of it are still wanting, that the failures have been lamentable, and that the doctrine has been utterly discredited.
Prof. L. S. Real, physiologist and professor of anatomy in King's College, London, says:
- The idea of any relation having been established between the non-living and the living by a gradual advance from lifeless matter to the lowest forms of life, and so onward to the higher and more complex, has not the slightest evidence from the facts of any section of living nature of which anything is known.
Professor Zoeckler, of the University of Greifswald, says:
- The claim that the hypothesis of descent is scientifically secured must most decidedly be denied.
