"The two least irrelevant quotes were from Sir Julian Huxley, and Aldous Huxley (no, its not a coincidence that they share names, his brother, a novelist not a scientist). Neither of these people fit the bill of "early evolutionary theorists"."
It gets worse. One of the quotes is from Colin Patterson (allegedly) ("The only competing explanation for the order we all see in the biological world is the notion of special creation."). I have also seen the same exact quote attributed to Niles Elderidge and Fred Hoyle. The gross quote mining of Patterson is bad enough. The absolute fabrication of the Julian Huxley quote is unconscionable. He never said it, nothing even close. The Aldous Huxley quote had nothing to do with evolution, and was in a book by Aldous AGAINST a philosophy of meaninglessness. He was never an atheist.
http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/julian_huxley_lie.html
The rest of the list is the same old same old creationist quote mining and *inveracity*.
We are all still waiting for a quote from an early evolutionist that will substantiate this claim,
"As can be demonstrated, early evolutionary theorists confessed that they were not drawn to the idea of secularist evolution because of any scientific merit, but rather because of its implications in morality."
The Huxley fabrications won't do.
It gets worse. One of the quotes is from Colin Patterson (allegedly) ("The only competing explanation for the order we all see in the biological world is the notion of special creation."). I have also seen the same exact quote attributed to Niles Elderidge and Fred Hoyle. The gross quote mining of Patterson is bad enough.It gets still worse. DLR was so smitten with that Patterson quote that he included in his list, and then he included it in his list again, further down. I've noticed before that DLR appears to have a severe short-term memory problem, to go with his reading comprehension and simple logic difficulties.