"Talk of natural selection, shape-shifting evolution, and quantum
fluctuations (held to explain the creation of the universe) are then at the end of the day little but a learned smokescreen concealing unacknowledged ignorance.
Yet surely the beginning of wisdom should take as it starting point the acknowledgement that there are very definite limits to our collective knowledge: speculation should not be confused with ascertainable
fact."
Neil Thomas, Science & Culture Today, Jan. 2025