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Posted on 07/20/2005 9:13:07 AM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
SEATTLE — More than 400 scientists have signed onto a growing list from all disciplines who are “skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life.”
“Darwin’s theory of evolution is the great white elephant of contemporary thought,” said Dr. David Berlinski, a mathematician and philosopher of science with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture (CSC). “It is large, almost completely useless, and the object of superstitious awe.”
Discovery Institute first published its Statement of Dissent from Darwin in 2001 and a direct challenge to statements made in PBS’ “Evolution” series that no scientists disagreed with Darwinian evolution.
“The fact is that a significant number of scientists are extremely skeptical that Darwinian evolution can explain the origins of life,” said Dr. John G. West, associate director of the CSC. “We expect that as scientists engage in the wider debate over materialist evolutionary theories, this list will continue to grow, and grow at an even more rapid pace than we’ve seen this past year.”
In the last 90 days, 29 scientists, including eight biologists, have signed the “Scientific Dissent From Darwinism.”. The list includes over 70 biologists total.
The most recent signatories are Lev V. Beloussov and Vladimir L. Voeikov, two prominent, Russian biologists from Moscow State University. Dr. Voeikov is a professor of bioorganic chemistry and Dr. Beloussov is a professor of embryology and Honorary Professor at Moscow State University; both are members of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
“The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology seriously hampers the development of science and hides from students the field’s real problems,” said Professor Voeikov.
“Lately in the media there’s been a lot of talk about science versus religion,” said West. “But such talk is misleading. This list is a witness to the growing group of scientists who challenge Darwinian theory on scientific grounds.”
Other prominent biologists who have signed the list include evolutionary biologist and textbook author Dr. Stanley Salthe, Dr. Richard von Sternberg an evolutionary biologist at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Biotechnology Information, and Giuseppe Sermonti, Editor of Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum. The list also includes scientists from Princeton, Cornell, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Ohio State University, Purdue and University of Washington among others.
Here is the List
Oh Boy! It keeps getting better. Is Darwinism dead?
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P.S.: You source lacks credibility.
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Only 400 scientists? Heck, you can get 200 Scientists named "Steve" to disagree.
http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/4023_the_press_release_2_16_2003.asp
These theories are no more unbelievable than the religious beliefs.
At the very least, it should be pointed out in public schools that it is a THEORY.
No. It's just being replaced by something more fit :)
400 incompetent scientists.
As I've said in previous threads I believe microbiology has just about finished the idea of natural selection and evolution. There's just too much planning in the plan.
LOL! Are you serious?
All those objecting to evolution raise your tails and throw a coconut at the vote counter.
Revelation 4:11
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No surprise here.
Don't ever think PBS spoke for the legitimate scientific community.
Pure Darwinian Evolution was Lysenkoism.
It went out before the 20th century began.
Punctuated Equilibrium Evolution refined that again into a very different process in the 1960s.
Creationists blathering about Darwinism are beating a dead horse, just like Flat Earth Loons fighting against Newtonian Gravity a century after General Relativity.
They aren't even in the right ring.
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One of the things I hate about watching interesting shows on the science channels is always their promotion of 'evolution'. Maybe it will start to change, but I doubt it.
What evidence? Oh, this announcement isnt about any new evidence, it's just about their list of 400 names (took them 4 years?). How impressive. Evolutionists, on the other hand, have a list of ~54,000.
Yup, those lousy universities like Princeton, Cornell, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Ohio State University, Purdue and University of Washington are always graduating the riff-raff.
from the above source . . .
"Eugenie C. Scott, the executive director of NCSE, explained the significance of the statement. "Creationists are fond of amassing lists of PhDs who deny evolution to try to give the false impression that evolution is somehow on the verge of being rejected by the scientific community. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Hundreds of scientists endorsed the NCSE statement. And we asked only scientists named Steve -- who represent approximately 1% of scientists."
Steven Weinberg, professor of physics at the University of Texas, Austin, and recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics, added, "Of course science isn't decided by manifesto; this statement pokes fun at such efforts. If you want to know whether scientists accept evolution, you should look in the scientific literature. There you find that evolution is alive and well, as a central and unifying principle of science."
The statement comes in the wake of several recent attempts to undermine evolution education across the country, including in Ohio. Said Steve Rissing, professor of biology at Ohio State University, "I run what is perhaps the largest introductory biology program in the world. That people are misleading the public about the scientific standing of evolution not only saddens me but also makes my job harder."
Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at MIT, added, "The 220 Steves -- and Stephanies -- who signed the statement aren't trying to stifle dissent, of course. Anyone who did produce solid scientific evidence against evolution would become an instant superstar. The point of the statement is to demonstrate how misleading it is to claim, on the basis of a handful of dissenters, that evolution is a 'theory in crisis.'"
And why Steve? "In honor of the late Harvard zoologist and geologist Stephen Jay Gould, a valiant supporter of both evolution education and NCSE," NCSE's Scott explained. "We hope that the next time creationists present a list of 'scientific dissenters from evolution', reporters will ask, 'How many of them are named Steve?'"
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