"The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and
biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded
on an unproved theory. Is it then a science or a faith? Belief in
the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special
creation. Both are concepts which believers know to be true but
neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof." L. Harrison Matthews
Introduction to Darwin's "The Origin of Species" 1971
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