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→Adopting the logic of possibility in the Evolutionary thought: adding sources
*''"there is definite tendency in the right direction"''
*''"there is definite tendency in the right direction"''
*''"it is not at all difficult to imagine"''
*''"it is not at all difficult to imagine"''
The true character of Darwinian hypotheses has been exemplified by William Hopkins' criticism in which he pointed out that Darwin, unlike [[Newton]], made at any time but little use of the verb "to prove" in any of its inflections. His primary formula was "I think," "I am convinced," "I believe," and not "I have proved":
The true character of Darwinian hypotheses has been exemplified by William Hopkins' criticism in which he pointed out that Darwin, unlike [[Newton]], made at any time but little use of the verb "to prove" in any of its inflections. His primary formula was "I think," "I am convinced," "I believe," and not "I have proved"<ref name="Hull">{{cite book |title=Darwin and his critics: the reception of Darwin's theory of evolution by the scientific community|author=David L. Hull|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1973|page=275|url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=jkUzUb-xK4Ol4gS27IGYAQ&id=juTaAAAAMAAJ&dq=Hull+Darwin+and+his+critics&q=verb#search_anchor}}</ref>:
*''"We may I think safely assume"''
*''"We may I think safely assume"''
*''"I think there can be little doubt that" ''
*''"I think there can be little doubt that" ''
*''"There is, also, I think, some probability in the view"''
*''"There is, also, I think, some probability in the view"''
*''"I am convinced of their accuracy; and if I had space, I could show that they are conformable with my theory"''<ref>{{cite book |author=Charles Darwin|title=The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for life |url=https://www.google.no/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&biw=1440&bih=775&q=I+am+convinced+site%3Awww.talkorigins.org%2Ffaqs%2Forigin&oq=I+am+convinced+site%3Awww.talkorigins.org%2Ffaqs%2Forigin&gs_l=serp.3...167053.168727.0.169614.2.2.0.0.0.0.1048.1250.2-1j7-1.2.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.5.serp.pELabzHwQys}}</ref>
*''"I am convinced of their accuracy; and if I had space, I could show that they are conformable with my theory"''<ref>{{cite book |author=Charles Darwin|title=The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for life |url=https://www.google.no/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&biw=1440&bih=775&q=I+am+convinced+site%3Awww.talkorigins.org%2Ffaqs%2Forigin&oq=I+am+convinced+site%3Awww.talkorigins.org%2Ffaqs%2Forigin&gs_l=serp.3...167053.168727.0.169614.2.2.0.0.0.0.1048.1250.2-1j7-1.2.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.5.serp.pELabzHwQys}}</ref>
Although it is not a fault to make such modest forms of expressions, they are in fact a formulae of a [[creed]] and not of a [[scientific theory]].<ref name="Hull"/>
== Notes ==
== Notes ==