Found this on a News Group. Posted by LovesMeNot.
Take for example the intellectual dishonesty of using Hitching as their MAIN
SOURCE of information for the "Creation" Book. It is little wonder they dont
CARE who wrote the New World Translation or whether or not that man or men were
even qualified to write it? (taken from Jan Hauglands review of Life How Did
It Get Here)
"The embarrassment of using Francis Hitching as the Creation books primary
reference:
Brothers, does it not trouble you that most of the Creation books attacks on
evolution are based on the thoughts and words of one man - Francis Hitching? On
page 15, par 4 and page 16 par 9 (and in endless other places throughout the
book), you refer to him as an "evolutionist". In the context of this book you
thereby leave the reader with the impression that he is a reputable scientist
specializing in evolutionary science.
IN REALITY THOUGH, FRANCIS HITCHING HAS NO CREDENTIALS AS A SCIENTIST! His
education is limited to a "private boys' school in Warwick, England" according
to his own information given in Contemporary Authors (Contemporary Authors, vol
103 p 208, Detroit: Gale Research, 1982).
Despite this fact, the Creation book makes him out to be a scientist of repute.
Also, you say in The Bible God's Word or Man's? p106: "How can the theory
of evolution be tested? The most obvious way is to examine the fossil record to
see if a gradual change from one kind to another really happened. Did it? No,
as a number of scientists honestly admit. One, Francis Hitching, writes: "When
you look for links between major groups of animals, they simply aren't there."
How can a man with a high school education be taken seriously as a "scientist"?
Further, should we as true Christians not be troubled by reading the
bibliography of Hitchings book? Would we recommend the reading of such books
as: Earth Magic, Dowsing: The Psi Connection or Mysterious World: An Atlas of
the Unexplained? Also, would we read anything by an author who said he was
member of the Society for Psychical Research, the British Society of Dowsers
and the American Society of Dowsers?
Hitching also in the bibliography claims membership in respected
organisations like the Royal Archeological Institute of London. Did you know
that there is documented proof of that Society explicitly denying any knowledge
of him?
Further, in the appendices of The Neck of the Giraffe he claims to have had
help from distinguished scientists like Dr. S. J. Gould. Did you know that Dr
Gould is down on record as having denied that, saying: "I have never met him
and have no information"? These examples are apparently not unique.
We can carry on and on: Hitching believes in the paranormal and has written on
Mayan pyramid energy and for some "In Search Of..." episodes on BBC television.
Another book of his is: Fraud, Mischief, and the Supernatural. Hitching's book
The Neck of the Giraffe spends much of its time attacking Darwinian evolution,
borrowing heavily and uncritically from young-earth creationist arguments. Many
of Hitching's "references" are lifted from young-earth creationist literature
rather than being quoted directly from their original sources. These are not
the actions of a real scientist.
One magazine (Creation/Evolution Newsletter, 7, No. 5, pp. 15-16,
September/October 1987) had this to say: "Speaking of the Biblical Creation
Society, there was an interesting letter in the January 1983 issue of their
journal Biblical Creation (p. 74) concerning a review of Francis Hitching's
1982 book The Neck of the Giraffe. Hitching's book is strongly anti-Darwinist,
and is enthusiastically hailed by most creationists (though he also pokes fun
at fundamentalist creationists). The letter, by creationist Malcolm Bowden
(author of The Rise of the Evolution Fraud), points out that Hitching simply
"culled his information from the creationist literature." This is indeed the
case: many creationist works are cited favourably (Anderson, Coffin, Clark,
Daly, Davidheiser, Dewar, Gish, Morris, Segraves, Whitcomb, and Wysong, plus
various anti-Darwinists).
Hitching is also a paranormalist, an advocate of psychic evolution....
[Hitching's book] Earth Magic is a wild, extremely entertaining and thoroughly
psychic interpretation of megalithic structures.... Hitching also includes in
his scheme cosmic cataclysms, Atlantis, pyramidology, dowsing, ESP, miraculous
healing, and astrology."
Indeed, it is embarrassing to offer the Creation book to the public under the
guise that it is "a thoroughly researched examination", when in fact the
primary source for most of its "scientific" statements is a sensationalist
author with a high school education!"
Now ...aintcha all proud to be part of such a forthright and HONEST
organization?
Qwerty