To: donh
Well what do you say about these people?
Other prominent signatories include U.S. National Academy of Sciences member Philip Skell; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow Lyle Jensen; evolutionary biologist and textbook author Stanley Salthe; Smithsonian Institution evolutionary biologist and a researcher at the National Institutes of Healths National Center for Biotechnology Information Richard von Sternberg; Editor of Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum --the oldest still published biology journal in the world-- Giuseppe Sermonti; and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences embryologist Lev Beloussov.
Wolf
1,313 posted on
02/21/2006 4:17:44 PM PST by
RunningWolf
(Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
To: RunningWolf
Well what do you say about these people? C'mon wolfie, how many times do we have to go through this? The statement being supported is that purely random selection cannot easily account for everything we can presently observe about evolutionary theory--which is now true, and always has been true, ever since it was conceded by Darwin, and is also true about every other natural science theory. Since the dawn of micro-biology, many mechanisms, other than random selection, to produce genetic changes have been discovered. The fact is, that most of these signatories would not, if asked, (and some were, and that includes Behe, under oath) claim that evolutionary theory isn't the basic operating procedure by which species are produced--they claim, like most scientists who are on top of things biological, that the story is far from complete, as yet.
You're making a mountain out of a gopher hole. But there's nothing new about that, is there?
1,320 posted on
02/21/2006 4:36:35 PM PST by
donh
To: RunningWolf; donh
Like donh said, your little list of scientists who signed that incredibly deceptive and weak "statement against evolution" which was actually no such thing. For example, you listed a few guys, I checked the 1st biologist you listed, Stanley Salthe.
While I believe him to be a complete left wing Ivy league liberal fruitcake (these are the guys you're in bed with?), a 30 second perusal of
his personal site makes it quite clear that he fully accepts evolution - just has a couple oddball questions about the mechanism.
Then again, to expect you to check your work, or to actually read the original thread this list was on, is a bit much. Same ol' same ol.
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