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.
Of course he is. You see, FReeper friendly is a reknowned biologist with thousands of peer-reviewed articles.
friendly has extensively investigated each of the 400 scientists in question and is so vastly superior in scientific knowledge that friendly can easily label them incompetent.
friendly is no idiot, insulting people just because friendly disagrees with them. That would be moronic.
Lovely day...someone from my Alma Mater is on that list.
Darwinian Evolution is deficient. It fails to explain those that live among us, look very similar to us, but have not developed the same rational thought processes. They call themselves Democrats.
(From the ritual account given by the Pawnee Indian,
Four Rings, to Dr. Melvin Gilmore.)
Mother Corn caused movement. She gave life.
Life being given we moved towards the surface:
We shall stand erect as men!
The being is become human! He is a person!
To personal form is added strength:
Form and intelligence united, we are ready to corn forth
But Mother Corn warns us that the Earth is still in flood.
Now Mother Corn proclaims that the flood is gone, and the Earth--now green.
Mother Corn commands that the people ascend to the surface.
Mother Corn has gathered them together, they move half way to the surface;
Mother Corn leads them near to the surface of the Earth;
Mother Corn brings them to the surface. The first light appears!
Mother Corn leads them forth. They have emerged to the waist.
They step forth to the surface of the Earth.
Now all have come forth; and Mother Corn leads them from the East towards the West.
Mother Corn leads them to the place of their habitation. . . .
All is completed All is perfect!
H.B. Alexander, The World's Rim
Do you still have the link to the NCSE resource that shows the mischaracterization of the question posed to these scientists?
Alas, rack of rationality is no barrier to breeding, which is all that is required to be "fit."
Indeed, it may be the opposite.
But if they agree with you, they wouldn't be incompetent, would they?
Evolutionists, on the other hand, have a list of ~54,000.IOW, the 400 creationist scientists are a mere .74% of the total set of scientists (~ 54,400)?
400, WOW!!
A few million more and that will be a significant number.
Oh goodie. I guess this means we can expect to start seeing the peer-reviewed academic theses covering the empirical, physical, experimental and predictive details of ID any day now that the Theory of Evolution has been formally dismissed. I await them eagerly!
Seventy biologists down, several hundred thousand to go.
So it's all a numbers game. When enough scientists are brave enough to come over to the other side, then the debate will heat up.
"IOW, the 400 creationist scientists are a mere ...."
Well 3 times I went through that article and didn't see any reference to creationist "scientists" Can you please point that out, my eyes must be failing me today?
This thread and announcement is about numbers.
However, there are people on this very site that would believe this crap.
will read later
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