New Scientific Evidence Convinces Over 400 Scientists That Darwinian Evolution is Deficient

Discovery.org ^ | 7/18/05 | Staff

[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.

[PatrickHenry]

Do you still have the link to the NCSE resource that shows the mischaracterization of the question posed to these scientists?

Doubting Darwinism Through Creative License. Debunks a bogus list of "doubters."
Project Steve. Nat'l Center for Science Education: the overwhelming number of genuine scientists supporting evolution.
Statements from Scientific and Scholarly Organizations. Sixty statements, all supporting evolution.

Another service of
Darwin Central
The conspiracy that cares

[indcons]

There you go again....asking a Creationist for evidence!!

[Mylo]

Those 400 "scientists" were probably issued "credentials" from the Discovery Institute or other whack job outfits; or were social "scientists" or such.

I'm sure one could find 400 reputable BIOLOGICAL Scientists (what a physicist or chemist brings to the table on a discussion of Evolution and the theory of natural selection is limited at best) who ascribe to some sort of "intelligent" design theory and have some reservation about Darwin's theory of natural selection; but that is 400 out of what....400,000?

[DoctorMichael]

".....extremely poor taste......"

Yes, I know, the Truth hurts sometimes.

[wallcrawlr]

pathetic

[blackfarm]

Huh? Macro evolution has not been demonstrated anywhere much less the lab. Biologists have not been able to turn one species into anything but that species with screwed up mutations.

[Pharmboy]

And do they also believe that Lysenko and Lamarck were right?

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

Don't pay any attention to him. He's lost it.

[shuckmaster]

So those who believe God is the creator admire Stalin?

Got paranoia? The clear implication is that those who mindlessly attack the science of evolution are admired by Stalin.

[DoctorMichael]

........pathetic.........

See #64.

[MacDorcha]

One problem though:

Evolutionary theory claims basis in empirical (that our theories should be based on our observations) thinking.

Whereas faith-based beliefs claim only faith.

[indcons]

Don't know about Stalin. It is a fact though that creationists recently got a known Islamic extremist to testify in favor of their wacko theories.

[Physicist]

Here is the List

The list contains not one, but two physicists named Philip Page from Oxford! The probability of that is so low, that I suspect some intelligent design was involved. <g>

[tfecw]

LOL!

[Mylo]

Darwinian evolution through natural selection has been demonstrated in the lab.

If you starve fruit fly larvae so that 90% of them die, and repeat for several generations you will derive a line of fruit flies that 90% of their larvae survive a stress that will kill 90% of non-selected fruit flies. This is hardly "screwed up mutations"; although it is an example of antagonistic pleotropy. Those fruit flies are starvation resistant, but at a cost. There is no free lunch in evolution (that is why Communists preferred Lamarkian evolution and Lysenkoism); everything comes at a price.

[indcons]

...I suspect some intelligent design was involved.

LOL :)

[blackfarm]

Here we go trying to frame the dissenters as "creationist scientists". Darwinian evolution breaks down dramatically at the cellular level and the biochemical level. Are you familiar with erereducable complexity,

[mlc9852]

I don't think someone like you recognizes truth. But it's okay - you are just one person and really not that important.

[DoctorMichael]

.........It is a fact though that creationists recently got a known Islamic extremist to testify in favor of their wacko theories...........

Totalitarians of a Feather, flock together.

[mlc9852]

So if they attacked science but not "mindlessly" would that make a difference? You people are really sad. I'm beginning to feel a little sorry for you.