Now, one of the reasons I started taking this anti-evolutionary view-well, let's call it non-evolutionary-was [that] last year I had a sudden realization. For over twenty years, I had thought that I was working on evolution in some way. One morning I woke up, and something had happened in the night, and it struck me that I had been working on this stuff for twenty years, and there was not one thing I knew about it. That was quite a shock, to learn that one can be so misled for so long... So for the last few weeks, I've tried putting a simple question to various people and groups of people.
The question is this: 'Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing, any one thing that you think is true? Is there one thing you can tell me about evolution?' I tried this question on the geology staff at the Field Museum of Natural History and the only answer I got was silence. I tried it on the members of the Evolutionary Morphology seminar in the University of Chicago- a very prestigious body of evolutionists-and all I got there was silence for a long time. But eventually one person said, 'I do know one thing-it ought not to be taught in high school.'