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→Adopting the logic of possibility in the Evolutionary thought: More examples
*''"it is not at all difficult to imagine"''
*''"it is not at all difficult to imagine"''
The true character of Darwinian hypotheses, labelled by John Wiester as "just-so stories" dominated by fuzzy logic, 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>:
The true character of Darwinian hypotheses, labelled by John Wiester as "just-so stories" dominated by fuzzy logic, 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>:
*''"I believe that something more is included"''
*''"we have such good reason to believe"''
*''"I believe, as was remarked in the last chapter, in no law of necessary development."''<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|chapter=11|url=https://www.google.no/search?q=I+believe+site:www.talkorigins.org/faqs/origin&hl=en&newwindow=1&ei=hZI8UcWnH-qC4ASG-4GACw&start=10&sa=N&biw=1440&bih=775}}</ref>
*''"I think there can be little doubt that" ''
*''"We may I think safely assume"''
*''"We may I think safely assume"''
*''"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"/>
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"/>