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→Adopting the logic of possibility in the Evolutionary thought: adding Spetner's view on Darwin
*''"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>
*''"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>
*''"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>
*''"there is no difficulty in supposing that such links formerly existed"''<ref>{{|title=Not by chance! Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution|author=Lee Spetner|publisher=Judaica Press|year=1998|pages=84|isbn=978-1880-582244|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=29BGPwAACAAJ&dq=Spetner+not+by+chance&hl=en&sa=X&ei=G81xUa2dNdCQ4gTAhYFQ&redir_esc=y|quote=[Darwin 1872, pp. 182 ff.] From "there is no difficulty in supposing", he went on to lead the reader into agreeing that it ''probably'' happened, and finally he assumes the reader goes along with him in agreeing that it did indeed happen that way.}}</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"/>