Dude, the science and evidence have moved light years beyond what those folks knew when they made their quotes. Science isn't religion, where the older the citation, the more revered it becomes. Science is about the latest-and-greatest, and those quotes ain't either.
With that I agree. The problem is that the latest and greatest is awesome, until you get to evolution. Then It seems to be more and more brick wall. Don't get me wrong. There are lots of new discoveries being made and data analyzed. I am just tired of "experts" that insist on interpreting the data to try to squeeze it into their own pet hypotheses, and then ramming it down my throat as fact.
I would like them to simply admit what they don't know, and treat "evolution" as the speculation it is. For, as is the case with ID, evolution will most certainly not be proven in our lifetime.
Most of those quotes seem to be from within the last fifty years. By contrast, calculus was invented in the 1600s and still works as well as it did then. Heat equations were invented when Napolean ruled France, and they still work. Electric light bulbs were invented over a hundred years ago and they still work pretty much the same as they did then. The diesel engine was invented over a hundred years ago and it still works, dynamite and smokeless powder still work after 130 years, airplanes still work nearly a hundred years after Kitty Hawk...
Why is evolution different from every other science? What is it about evolution which makes anything written about it more than five years ago out of date and irrelevant?