I’m not sure what I was supposed to notice from the list of links. I looked at the first few links and dems and reps polled almost exactly the same (actually much more similarly than I would have expected). And anyway, I was speaking more about professionals, as my follow up sentence implied “The vast majority of scientists of all persuasions believe in evolution.”
“Vast? Meanwhile this list is growing.
www.dissentfromdarwin.org”
—It such an innocuous statement that the people are signing that even *I* would sign such a document (if it was coming from a more honest source). As my previous post said “Generally scientists believe that there should be at least some room for skepticism of all theories and “facts”, since we are, after all, fallible.” And not only that, but there are other mechanisms, such as genetic drift and neutral selection, that are extremely important in evolution. So it’s a statement that says basically nothing - and certainly doesn’t necessarily imply any “dissent from Darwinism”.
And yet, despite the vacuousness of the statement, and the fact that it’s been circulating for nearly a decade, and that there are over half a million scientists and engineers with phds in the US alone, and that it’s open to scientists and engineers internationally - the list has yet to hit 1000 names. And most of the names on the list have degrees in fields that have nothing to do with evolution. The list could hardly be better evidence of how astonishingly little “dissent from Darwinism” there really is. I would have thought that such a list, being that it’s open to all fields of science and engineering worldwide - with that sort of statement - would have no problem getting tens of thousands of signatures - even with the overwhelming vast majority of scientists being Darwinists.
“I’m not sure what I was supposed to notice from the list of links”.
Color me shocked!!!
You didn’t notice for instance most freepers don’t buy into the cult of evolution?
I’ll bet you didn’t notice FR is a conservative website too.
“And yet, despite the vacuousness of the statement, and the fact that it’s been circulating for nearly a decade, and that there are over half a million scientists and engineers with phds in the US alone, and that it’s open to scientists and engineers internationally - the list has yet to hit 1000 names. And most of the names on the list have degrees in fields that have nothing to do with evolution. The list could hardly be better evidence of how astonishingly little “dissent from Darwinism” there really is. I would have thought that such a list, being that it’s open to all fields of science and engineering worldwide - with that sort of statement - would have no problem getting tens of thousands of signatures - even with the overwhelming vast majority of scientists being Darwinists”.
And here you conveniently left out that many scientists probably aren’t even aware of this site and that this site by no means is the only avenue of dissent.
What I find much more interesting is that despite the site being around for a decade as you point out, nevertheless the list indeed grows.
Try actually reading some of the observations sometime.