Posted on 03/09/2005 12:36:05 PM PST by Heartlander
Darwinian Doubts
By: David Berlinski
March 9, 2005
Original Article
NOTE: The article below is the full version by Dr. Berlinski. The Wichita Eagle opted to shorten the piece to only 400 words.
The defense of Darwin’s theory of evolution has now fallen into the hands of biologists who believe in suppressing criticism when possible and ignoring it when not. It is not a strategy calculated in induce confidence in the scientific method. A paper published recently in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington concluded that the events taking place during the Cambrian era could best be understood in terms of an intelligent design – hardly a position unknown in the history of western science. The paper was, of course, peer-reviewed by three prominent evolutionary biologists. Wise men attend to the publication of every one of the Proceeding’s papers, but in the case of Steven Meyer’s "The origin of biological information and the higher taxonomic categories," the Board of Editors was at once given to understand that they had done a bad thing. Their indecent capitulation followed at once.
Publication of the paper, they confessed, was a mistake. It would never happen again. It had barely happened at all. And peer review?
The hell with it.
“If scientists do not oppose antievolutionism,” Eugenie Scott, the Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, remarked, “it will reach more people with the mistaken idea that evolution is scientifically weak.” Scott’s understanding of ‘opposition’ had nothing to do with reasoned discussion. It had nothing to do with reason at all. Discussing the issue was out of the question. Her advice to her colleagues was considerably more to the point: "Avoid debates."
Everyone else had better shut up.
In this country, at least, no one is ever going to shut up, the more so since the case against Darwin’s theory retains an almost lunatic vitality.
Look – The suggestion that Darwin’s theory of evolution is like theories in the serious sciences – quantum electrodynamics, say – is grotesque. Quantum electrodynamics is accurate to thirteen unyielding decimal places. Darwin’s theory makes no tight quantitative predictions at all.
Look – Field studies attempting to measure natural selection inevitably report weak to non-existent selection effects.
Look – Darwin’s theory is open at one end since there are no plausible account for the origins of life.
Look – The astonishing and irreducible complexity of various cellular structures has not yet successfully been described, let alone explained.
Look – A great many species enter the fossil record trailing no obvious ancestors and depart for Valhalla leaving no obvious descendents.
Look – Where attempts to replicate Darwinian evolution on the computer have been successful, they have not used classical Darwinian principles, and where they have used such principles, they have not been successful.
Look – Tens of thousands of fruit flies have come and gone in laboratory experiments, and every last one of them has remained a fruit fly to the end, all efforts to see the miracle of speciation unavailing.
Look – The remarkable similarity in the genome of a great many organisms suggests that there is at bottom only one living system; but how then to account for the astonishing differences between human beings and their near relatives – differences that remain obvious to anyone who has visited a zoo?
But look again – If the differences between organisms are scientifically more interesting than their genomic similarities, of what use is Darwin’s theory since it’s otherwise mysterious operations take place by genetic variations?
These are hardly trivial questions. Each suggests a dozen others. These are hardly circumstances that do much to support the view that there are “no valid criticisms of Darwin’s theory,” as so many recent editorials have suggested.
Serious biologists quite understand all this. They rather regard Darwin’s theory as an elderly uncle invited to a family dinner. The old boy has no hair, he has no teeth, he is hard of hearing, and he often drools. Addressing even senior members at table as Sonny, he is inordinately eager to tell the same story over and over again.
But he’s family. What can you do?
David Berlinski holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is the author of On Systems Analysis, A Tour of the Calculus, The Advent of the Algorithm, Newton’s Gift, The Secrets of the Vaulted Sky, and, most recently, Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics. He is a senior fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
Well, Snarks, looks like you stepped in it this time. Let's just take a little quiz and see what YOU know -- or don't know as the case may be (and likely is). Shall we?
Was Darwin an esteemed academically accomplished paleontologist? Was he an accomplished biologist? Was he academically distinguished is any field of the natural sciences? Can you tell me what academic training he had which informed his evo-fantasy? Was he sufficiently peer reviewed and acdemically critiqued for scientific merit before he published? Yes, we all know that Karl Marx read his manuscript for Origin... and had his own Commu-gasm after doing so, but how about some real esteemed, academically accomplished scientists of his time?
How conveniently the Darwin devotees neglect to mention that Darwin was merely an academically failing med school drop out who obtained only a pedestrian level degree in -- of all things -- theology.
You evo-trolls don't bother to do any research on your mouthpieces, do you?
So... when it comes to Darwin here's what you have: a scientifically untrained, unaccomplished, academic drop out with a passing knowledge of theology who hops on a boat, calls himself a naturalist, makes observations about organisms for which he has no demonstrated scientific ability to discern anything substantive about, comes to conclusions about the observations which have no scientific merit, who publishes this canard that gets read by social scientists who hate capitalism.
And they just loved how applicable and "scientific"-sounding it all seemed to support the notions of class warfare, "scientific management theory," and that survival of the fittest crap that gave us those paragons of social engineering and race baiting from the socially darwinistic USSR, to the "genetically superior" Master race Nazis, to Margaret Sanger inspired abortion mills for little "non-persons" in the US -- that sadly some in the field call "medicine."
Agnostics, and posturing "higher critics" looking for a philosophy dressed up as "science" to give them an excuse to act on what they figure are their evolutionary rights to animal instincts glom on to Darwin as their patron saint of self-gratification.
Darwin wasn't an accomplished scientist and Darwinism has nothing to do with the study of real science. It merely forms a premise, and an inherent bias for looking at life through a Godless prism.
And today we have everyone in those affore-mentioned groups from PhDs (who as scientists should think like more like scientists, and stop sucking up to the political group-think) to space cadet Sci-Fi TV saturated trekkies (who think they became scientists watching late not Captain Kirk reruns) worshipping at this guy's feet, and elevating him as their scientific hero merely because they think he has some how figured out a way to do away with God.
Those who worship at the altar of Darwin's dogma of "scientism" do so at their intellectual peril.
Phew. Strong stuff. If I ever meet anyone like that, I'll be sure to warn them.
AMEN
Sometimes. His descriptions were mostly turgid but incomplete.
On the other hand, Ernst Mayr, who died last month, was an expert, indeed, the greatest evolutionist of the 20th century, and I defer to his assessment of Darwin and Darwinism. On an earlier thread, I incorporated one of his last interviews. If contact with a great mind (rather than merely a facile mind of Berlinski's sort) holds any interest for you, you'll want to read that interview.
Hmmmm. I think you're fudging. If he had really gotten it wrong, that would have been your first comment, not that the books were badly written.
". . . turgid but incomplete."
Sounds like big parts of the bible. :-D
Your writing is stylish enough for me to consider...
LOL...I don't think all the evolutionists criticisms of creationists together can match the way you just tore down Darwin.
Actually, yes. Some of his descriptive work is still standard reference material.
Yes. No author in history has been more thoroughly scrutinized. Prior to publication of "Origin" he corresponded with professional biologists and geologists for 20 years, and had his thoughts subjected to the best scientific minds of the age, many of whom did not acdept natural selection.
I might just add that the scientific community accepted Darwin's theories as important, but did not just roll over and accept them. Eighty years passed before mainstream biology accepted natural selection. Most of Darwin's contemporaries accepted common descent, but rejected natural selection. This includes Darwin's bulldog, T.H. huxley.
Are you comfortable with the ICR having an astrologer in a high position on the staff? How about a Wiccan?
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[-Coral Reefs - Volcanic Islands - Geological Observations on South America-]
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[note: letters in periodicals are not listed separately here.]
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Darwin, Charles, 'On the connexion of certain volcanic phænomena, and on the formation of mountain-chains and volcanos, as the effects of continental elevations', Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, 2(56) 1838, pp. 654-660.
Darwin, Charles, 'Note on a Rock seen on an Iceberg in 61° South Latitude', The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 9, 1839, pp. 528-529.
Darwin, Charles, 'Observations on the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, and of other parts of Lochaber in Scotland, with an attempt to prove that they are of marine origin', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1839, pp. 39-81.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the Connexion of certain Volcanic Phenomena in South America; and on the Formation of Mountain Chains and Volcanos, as the Effect of the same Power by which Continents are elevated.', Transactions of the Geological Society of London,(2)53, 1840, pp. 601-631.
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Darwin, Charles, 'On a Remarkable Bar of Sandstone off Pernambuco, on the Coast of Brazil', London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 19, 1841, pp. 257-60.
Darwin, Charles, 'Humble-Bees', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 34, 21 August 1841, p. 550.
Darwin, Charles, 'Notes on the Effects Produced by the Ancient Glaciers of Caernarvonshire, and on the Boulders Transported by Floating Ice', London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science 21, 1842, pp. 180-88.
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Darwin, Charles, 'Manures, and Steeping Seeds', Gardeners' Chronicle, 8 June 1844, p. 380.
Darwin, Charles, 'Variegated Leaves', Gardeners' Chronicle, 14 September 1844, p. 621.
Darwin, Charles, 'What is the Action of Common Salt on Carbonate of Lime?', Gardeners' Chronicle, 14 September 1844, pp. 628-29.
Darwin, Charles, 'Observations on the Structure and Propagation of the genus Sagitta', Annals and Magazine of Natural History, xiii. 1844, pp. 1-6.
Darwin, Charles, 'Brief descriptions of several Terrestrial Planariae, and of some remarkable Marine Species, with an Account of their Habits', Annals and Magazine of Natural History, xiv. 1844, pp. 241-251.
Darwin, Charles, 'An Account of the Fine Dust which Often Falls on Vessels in the Atlantic Ocean', Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, pt. 1, 2, 1846, pp. 26-30.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the Geology of the Falkland Islands', Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, pt. 1, 2, 1846, pp. 267-74.
Darwin, Charles, 'Origin of Saliferous Deposits: Salt-Lakes of Patagonia and La Plata', Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, pt. 2, 2, 1846, pp. 127-28.
Darwin, Charles, [review of] 'Waterhouse's 'Natural History of the Mammalia', Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1847, xix. pp. 53-6.
Darwin, Charles, 'Salt', Gardeners' Chronicle, 6 March 1847, pp. 157-58.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the Transportal of Erratic Boulders from a Lower to a Higher Level', Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 4, 1848, pp. 315-23.
Darwin, Charles, 'On British Fossil Lepadidæ', The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 6, 1850, pp. 439-440.
Darwin, Charles, 'Extracts from Letters to the General Secretary, on the Analogy of the Structure of Some Volcanic Rocks with That of Glaciers', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2, 1851, pp. 17-18.
Darwin, Charles, 'Bucket Ropes for Wells', Gardeners' Chronicle, 10 January 1852, p. 22.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the power of Icebergs to make rectilinear, uniformly-directed Grooves across a Submarine Undulatory Surface', London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, x, 1855, pp. 96-98.
Darwin, Charles, 'Does Sea-Water Kill Seeds?', Gardeners' Chronicle, 14 April 1855, p. 242.
Darwin, Charles, 'Does Sea-Water Kill Seeds?', Gardeners' Chronicle, 26 May 1855, pp. 356-57.
Darwin, Charles, 'Nectar-Secreting Organs of Plants', Gardeners' Chronicle, 21 July 1855, p. 487.
Darwin, Charles, 'Shell Rain in the Isle of Wight', Gardeners' Chronicle, 3 November 1855, pp. 726-27.
Darwin, Charles, 'Vitality of Seeds'. Gardeners' Chronicle, 17 November 1855, p. 758.
Darwin, Charles, 'Effect of Salt-Water on the Germination of Seeds', Gardeners' Chronicle, 1 December 1855, p. 789.
Darwin, Charles, 'Longevity of Seeds', Gardeners' Chronicle, 29 December 1855, p. 854.
Darwin, Charles, 'Seedling Fruit Trees', Gardeners' Chronicle, 29 December 1855 p. 854.
Darwin, Charles, 'Effect of Salt-Water on the Germination of Seeds', Gardeners' Chronicle, 24 November 1855, p. 773.
Darwin, Charles, 'Cross Breeding', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 49, 6 December 1856, p. 806.
Darwin, Charles, 'Hybrid Dianths', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 10, 7 March 1857, p. 155.
Darwin, Charles, 'Mouse-coloured Breed of Ponies', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 24, 13 June 1857 p. 427.
Darwin, Charles, 'The Subject of Deep Wells', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 30, 25 July 1857, p. 518.
Darwin, Charles, 'Bees and Fertilisation of Kidney Beans'. Gardeners' Chronicle, 24 October 1857, p. 725.
Darwin, Charles, 'Productiveness of Foreign Seed', Gardeners'Chronicle, no. 46, 14 November 1857, p. 779.
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Darwin, Charles, 'Public Natural History Collections', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 48, 27 November 1858 p. 861.
Darwin, Charles, 'Cross-bred Plants', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 3, 21 January 1860 p. 49.
Darwin, Charles, 'Do the Tineina or other Small Moths Suck Flowers, and if so what Flowers?', Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer 8, 1860, p. 103.
Darwin, Charles, 'Natural Selection', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 16, 21 April 1860, pp. 362-63.
Darwin, Charles, 'Fertilisation of British Orchids by Insect Agency', Gardeners'Chronicle, no. 23, 9 June 1860, p. 528.
Darwin, Charles, 'Note on the achenia of Pumilio Argyrolepis', Gardeners' Chronicle, 5 January 1861, p. 4.
Darwin, Charles, 'Fertilisation of British Orchids by Insect Agency', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 6, 9 February 1861, p. 122.
Darwin, Charles, 'Phenomena in the Cross-breeding of Plants', Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener, 14 May 1861, 1, pp. 112.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the Two Forms, or Dimorphic Condition, in the Species of Primula, and on their remarkable Sexual Relations', Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany, 6, 1862, pp. 77-96.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the Three remarkable Sexual Forms of Catasetum tridentatum, an Orchid in the Possession of the Linnean Society', Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany, 6, 1862, pp. 151-57.
Darwin, Charles, 'Cross-breeding in Plants: Fertilisation of Leschenaultia formosa', Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener, 28 May 1861, 1, p. 151.
Darwin, Charles, 'Fertilisation of Vincas', Gardeners' Chronicle, 15 June 1861, pp. 552, 831, 832.
Darwin, Charles, 'Cause of the Variation of Flowers', Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener, 18 June 1861, 1, p. 211.
Darwin, Charles, 'Fertilization of Orchids', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 37, 14 September 1861, p. 831.
Darwin, Charles, 'Peas', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 45, 8 November 1862 p. 1052.
Darwin, Charles, 'Cross-breeds of Strawberries', Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener, 25 November 1862, 3, p. 672.
Darwin, Charles, 'Variations Effected by Cultivation', Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener, 2 December 1862, 3, p. 696.
Darwin, Charles, 'Fertilisation of Orchids', Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener, 31 March 1863, 4, p. 237.
Darwin, Charles, 'The Doctrine of Heterogeny and Modification of Species', Athenaeum. Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, no. 1852, 25 April 1863, pp. 554-55.
Darwin, Charles, 'Origin of Species', Athenaeum. Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, no. 1854, 9 May 1863, p. 617.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the Thickness of the Pampean Formation, Near Buenos Ayres', Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 19, 1863, pp. 68-71.
Darwin, Charles, 'Appearance of a Plant in a Singular Place', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 33, 15 August 1863, p. 773.
Darwin, Charles, 'Vermin and Traps', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 35, 29 August 1863, pp. 821-22.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the so-called "Auditory-sac" of Cirripedes', Natural History Review, 1863, pp. 115-116.
Darwin, Charles, 'A review of Mr. Bates' paper on 'Mimetic Butterflies.'', Natural History Review, 1863, pp. 219-224.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the Existence of Two Forms, and on Their Reciprocal Sexual Relation, in Several Species of the Genus Linum', Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 7, 1864, pp. 69-83.
Darwin, Charles, 'Ancient Gardening', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 41, 8 October 1864, p. 965.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the Sexual Relations of the Three Forms of Lythrum salicaria', Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany, 8, 1865, pp. 169-96.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants', Journal of the Linnaean Society of London (Botany), 9, 1865, pp. 1-118. [Digitization forthcoming].
Darwin, Charles, 'Partial Change of Sex in Unisexual Flowers', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 6, 10 February 1866, p. 127.
Darwin, Charles, 'Oxalis Bowei', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 32, 11 August 1866 p. 756.
Darwin, Charles, 'Cross-fertilising Papilionaceous Flowers', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 32, 11 August 1866, p. 756.
Darwin, Charles, 'Fertilisation of Cypripediums', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 14, 6 April 1867, p. 350.
Darwin, Charles, 'Note on the Common Broom', in George Henslow, 'Note on the Structure of Indigofera, as Apparently Offering Facilities for the Intercrossing of Distinct Flowers,' Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, 9, 1867, p. 358.
Darwin, Charles, '[Inquiry about Proportional Number of Males and Females Born to Domestic Animals]', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 7, 15 February 1868, p. 160.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the Character and Hybrid-like Nature of the Offspring from the Illegitimate Unions of Dimorphic and Trimorphic Plants', Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, 10, 1868, pp. 393-437.
Darwin, Charles, 'On the Specific Difference between Primula veris, Brit. F. (var. officinalis of Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. (var. acaulis, Linn.), and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the Hybrid Nature of the common Oxlip. With Supplementary Remarks on naturally-produced Hybrids in the genus Verbascum', Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, 10, 1868, pp. 437-454.
Darwin, Charles, 'Queries about Expression for Anthropological Inquiry', Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . . . for the Year 1867. Senate Mis. doc. no. 86, 1868, p. 324.
Darwin, Charles, 'Hedgehogs', Hardwicke's Science-Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 1 Dec. 1868. p. 280.
Darwin, Charles, 'The Formation of Mould by Worms', Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 20, 15 May 1869 p. 530.
Darwin, Charles, 'Pangenesis: Mr. Darwin's Reply to Professor Delpino', Scientific Opinion: A Weekly Record of Scientific Progress at Home & Abroad, 2, 1869, p. 426.
Darwin, Charles, 'Origin of Species', Athenaeum. Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, no. 2174, 26 June 1869, p. 861.
Darwin, Charles, 'Origin of Species', Athenaeum. Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, no. 2177, 17 July 1869, p. 82.
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Darwin, Charles, 'The Fertilisation of Winter-flowering Plants', Nature, 1 November 1869, vol. i. p. 85.
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To the best of my knowledge, Darwin wasn't an astrologer and published nothing promoting astrology. That would seem to make him ineligible for a high position at ICR.
You obviously think Berlinski is associated with ICR.
I gave up trying to show darwin fanatics their errors.
And...I will listen to anyone's ideas, even astrologers.
I am not close-minded, like some we know..
This was in the posted article:
David Berlinski is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle.
I assume it is true, but the track record for your posts calls that into question.
I am glad to hear that Christians have become broad-minded enough to admit astrologers to their council of science advisors. It will move them up at least to the middle ages.
The track record of my posts is fine with me.
I 'm glad you think Discovery is ICR.
Fine record!
tfecw: "....this is wrong. They have gotten fruit flies to live longer."
No, read Berlinski's paragraph again: "....[the fruiy fly] has remained a fruit fly to the end, all efforts to see the miracle of speciation unavailing. "Fruit flies living longer" does not constitute speciation. Not even the most wacked-out Young-Earther denies that there is variation within species which can be manipulated, intentionally or by natural selection.
You can manipulate and select the gene pool of canines to produce animals taller or shorter, hairless or thick-coated, but that does not mean you can select for wings or antlers or Kelly Green Irish Setters.
A particularly well-adapted cow may be able to jump over a fence, but you cannot extrapolate and say "therefore with time plus chance, her offspring could jump over the moon."
"living longer lives" and "speciation" are two different problems requiring different solutions. "living longer lives" involves selecting existing information from the species' gene pool while eliminating or restricting other information. Speciation requires the addition and spread of altogether new information to the gene pool. That doesn't happen.
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