Sun says: "About 700 scientists from Africa, Europe and the United States attended Saturday's "Darwin and Design" conference to press their contention that evolution cannot fully explain the origins of life or the emergence of highly complex species."
JeffAtlanta says: "You've been told before that every scientist worth his salt should agree to this statement as evolution doesn't even address the origins of life. If a scientist believes that this statement is groundbreaking then you really have to doubt how educated he is.
BTW, 700 is a very tiny number. How many of these are actually biologists rather than just religious computer scientists that one year of biology in high school?"
So, these 700 are your best and your brightest, and the others will follow.
These scientists are your CURIOUS scientists, not stuck in the past. These curious scientists will look at new evidence. (And I'll bet these scientists are not all named Steve. lol)
The 700 are scientists, so obviously have more than one-year of biology in high school. You are being disingenuous.
Just because THIS particular article has 700 doesn't mean that is all there are.
Oh yeah, and here's some more guys that have more than "one-year of biology in high school":
Here is a partial Bibliography consisting only of the Fellows of the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design (ISCID) http://www.iscid.org/fellows.php found in the ISCID Bibliography... just had to get this in before I left:
Histone Deletion Mutants Challenge the Molecular Clock Hypothesis
by Behe, Michael J
Trends in Biochemical Sciences 15: 374-376 1990
A Response to Critics of Darwin's Black Box
by Behe, Michael J.
Progress in Complexity, Information and Design Volume 1.1.4 March 2002
Natural Language and Natural Selection
by Pinker, Steven; Bloom, Paul
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13: 707-784 1990
A Statistical Examination of Self-Ordering of Amino Acids in Proteins
by Kok, Randall A.; Taylor, John A.; and Bradley, Walter
Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 18, pp. 135-142 1988
Scientific Revolution and the Grammar of Culture: The Case of Darwin's Origin
by Campbell, John Angus
Quarterly Journal of Speech 72 (4): 351-376 1986
Integrated use of multiple interdependent patterns for biomolecular sequence analysis
by Chiu, D.K.Y. and Lui, T.H.
International Journal of Fuzzy Systems Vol.4, No.3, pp.766-775 September 2002
God, Creation and Mr Davies
by Craig, William Lane
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37: 163-175 1986
'What Place, Then, For a Creator?': Hawking on God and Creation
by Craig, William Lane
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 41: 473-491 1990
Barrow and Tipler on the Anthropic Principle vs. Divine Design
by Craig, William Lane
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 38: 389-395 1988
Why Natural Selection Can't Design Anything
by Dembski, William A.
Progress in Complexity, Information and Design Volume 1.1.6 March 2002
Becoming a Disciplined Science: Prospects, Pitfalls, and Reality Check for ID
by Dembski, William A.
PCID 1.4.1 December 31 2002
Evolution's Logic of Credulity: An Unfettered Response to Allen Orr
by Dembski, William A.
PCID 1.4.5 December 31 2002
ID as a Theory of Technological Evolution
by Dembski, William A.
ISCID Archive
Random Predicate Logic I: A Probabilistic Approach to Vagueness
by Dembski, William A.
PCID Double Issue, Volumes 1.2 and 1.3, Article 5 October 30 2002
Some Theoretical and Practical Results in Context-Sensitive and Adaptive Parsing
by Jackson,Quinn Tyler
PCID 1.4.8 December 31 2002
A New Look at the Cosmological Argument
by Koons, Robert C
American Philosophical Quarterly 34 (2): 193-211 1997
Are Probabilities Indispensable to the Design Inference?
by Koons, Robert C.
Progress in Complexity, Informaiton and Design Volume 1.1.2 March 2002
The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory
by Langan, Christopher
PCID Double Issue, Volumes 1.2 and 1.3, Article 1 October 30 2002
Does the association of spectral absorption bands in sunlight with the spectral response of photoreceptors in plants imply coincidence, adaptation or design?
by Mims, Forrest M.
Progress in Complexity, Information and Design Volume 1.1.8 March 2002
The Role of Theology in Current Evolutionary Reasoning
by Nelson, Paul A
Biology and Philosophy 11: 493-517 1996
Searching for Deep Variation in the Model Systems of Evo-Devo
by Nelson, P. and Wells, J.
Progress in Complexity, Information and Design Volume 1.1.5 March 2002
What Does Evolutionary Computing Say About Intelligent Design?
by Stephan, Karl D.
PCID 1.4.4 December 31 2002
How to Contruct a Falsifiable Theory in Which the Universe Came Into Being Several Thousand Year Ago
by Tipler, Frank J
PSA 2: 873-902 1984
The History and Limits of Genetic Engineering
by Wells, Jonathan
International Journal on the Unity of the Sciences 5: 137-150 1992
Searching for Deep Variation in the Model Systems of Evo-Devo
by Nelson, P. and Wells, J.
Progress in Complexity, Information and Design Volume 1.1.5 March 2002
Why? Did you not understand the question?
Frank J. Tipler is a professor of mathematical physics at Tulane University, New Orleans, physicist, theologian and cornucopian philosopher.
From the ISCID biography on Paul A Nelson...
Paul Nelson is a philosopher of biology, specializing in evo-devo and developmental biology. He is also a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design. Dr. Nelson received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Department of Philosophy.
These are examples of ID's experts in biology?
Paul Bloom's bio...
PAUL BLOOM is a professor of psychology at Yale University. He is an internationally recognized expert on language and development, and with Steven Pinker coauthored one of the seminal papers in the field.
He is co-editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, one of the major interdisciplinary journals in the field, and has published over seventy chapters and journal articles in psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience.
Stephen Pinker's bio...
STEVEN PINKER is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.
FWIW, Pinker is a pretty sharp guy in his field.
Here is Koons' self bio..
I obtained an academic scholarship which took me to Michigan State University in East Lansing. At first, I majored in economics, and then in humanities, but eventually, as more and more philosophy courses accumulated on my transcript, I accepted the inevitable and concentrated on philosophy.
My interest in religion and theology continued, and in 1979 I won a Marshall Scholarship which took me to Oxford, where I studied philosophy and theology for two years. While at Oxford, my philosophical interests moved more and more in the direction of logic and formal philosophy.
My combined interests in logic and in philosophical theology led me to do my graduate work in philosophy at UCLA. In 1987, I completed my dissertation on logical paradoxes of truth and rationality. That fall, I came to the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor.Note that the common thread in the list that provided? Almost none have any graduate level or even undergraduate degrees in biology. The thing they do seem to have though is an strong interest in religion.
Why aren't any lead scientists for pharmaceutical firms signing on to this list? Why aren't scientists that are actually working with infectious diseases signing on to this list?
Forrest Mims, while a prolific writer for Radio Shack, is an amateur scientist.
Langan's bio...
Raised to value brawn as highly as brains, Christopher worked at various times as a cowboy, firefighter and construction worker, and for the past 20+ years, as a bar bouncer in assorted nightclubs across the East End of Long Island. Without benefit of formal higher education, he has engaged for over two decades in research on mathematics, physics, cosmology and the cognitive sciences.
Jackson's bio from his homepage...
Quinn is a computer scientist, novelist, and poet.