evolution is for monkeys, page-263

Summarizing some of the unsolved problems confronting evolution, Francis Hitching observed: “In three crucial areas where [the modern evolution theory] can be tested, it has failed: The fossil record reveals a pattern of evolutionary leaps rather than gradual change. Genes are a powerful stabilizing mechanism whose main function is to prevent new forms evolving. Random step-by-step mutations at the molecular level cannot explain the organized and growing complexity of life.”
After an important conference of some 150 specialists in evolution Francis Hitching himself an evolutionist says:“Feuds concerning the theory of evolution exploded . . . Entrenched positions, for and against, were established in high places, and insults lobbed like mortar bombs from either side.” He said that it is an academic dispute of far-reaching proportions, “potentially one of those times in science when, quite suddenly, a long-held idea is overthrown by the weight of contrary evidence and a new one takes its place.
Hitching concluded by making this observation: “To put it at its mildest, one may question an evolutionary theory so beset by doubts among even those who teach it. If Darwinism is truly the great unifying principle of biology, it encompasses extraordinarily large areas of ignorance. It fails to explain some of the most basic questions of all: how lifeless chemicals came alive, what rules of grammar lie behind the genetic code, how genes shape the form of living things.” In fact, Hitching stated that he considered the modern theory of evolution “so inadequate that it deserves to be treated as a matter of faith.”

Yes MrGordon, that's fine.

But what I was hoping for is an expression in your own words what you think that the theory of evolution is so that I can understand what you are rejecting.

I know some regard the theory as something that requires faith, and that there are those who see only gaps in the fossil record rather than intermediary species. There are those who see random mutations and don't think that natural selection is sufficient to deal with the random nature of mutations.

There are those who tell you that the theory of evolution doesn't explain how life started. Evolutionary biologists will agree with them. The theory only deals with life once it has started.

Something on Francis Hitching

Extract: Hitching is a non-Darwinian evolutionist. He wrote the book The Neck of the Giraffe or Where Darwin Went Wrong (1983) in which he criticised both creationism and Darwinism, instead supporting a form of Neo- Lamarckism.