Dr. Stephen J. Gould, a paleontologist respected amongst Evolutionists prior to his deathbed conversion to Christianity, let slip a similar opinion once during a non-public meeting of his peers:
"Evolution is clearly an absurd idea; The proposition that all the complexities of life just happened ... due to random, contingent actions of the material world is unsupportable. [Extended baseball analogy to illustrate previous point.] However, we must believe in evolution because the alternative is unthinkable."
I can't find anything anywhere else on the internet to substantiate this claim, can someone find something.