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→Adopting the logic of possibility in the Evolutionary thought: Adding more examples by Darwin
*''"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, 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," "my general view must have some truth," "I cannot see any difficulty," 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"''
*''"I believe that something more is included"''
*''"we have such good reason to believe"''
*''"we have such good reason to believe"''
*''"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>
*''"I am sure to be in error in many parts; but my general view, I conclude, must have some truth in it"''<ref>{{cite web |title=Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa 24 Dec [1859]|publisher=the University of Cambridge Darwin Correspondence Project|accessdate=17-Mar-2013|url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-2599}}</ref>
*''"For the life of me I cannot see any difficulty in Natural selection producing the most exquisite structure, if such structure can be arrived at by gradation;"''<ref>{{cite web |title=Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles 15 Apr [1860]|publisher=the University of Cambridge Darwin Correspondence Project|accessdate=17-Mar-2013|url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-2761}}</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"/>