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More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement

posted by martyb on Thursday February 14 2019, @06:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the scientific-method dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Earlier this month, a long kept list of Ph.D. scientists who “dissent from Darwinism” reached a milestone — it crossed the threshold of 1,000 signers.

“There are 1,043 scientists on the ‘A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism’ list. It passed the 1,000 mark this month,” said Sarah Chaffee, a program officer for the Discovery Institute, which maintains the list.

“A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism” is a simple, 32-word statement that reads: “We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.”

https://www.thecollegefix.com/more-than-1000-scientists-sign-dissent-from-darwinism-statement/

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @06:19PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @06:19PM (#801073)

    Redirect to PDF: https://www.discovery.org/f/660 [discovery.org]

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by aristarchus on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:59PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:59PM (#801168) Journal

    And then there is this:

    The Discovery Institute (DI) is a politically conservative[4][5][6] non-profit think tank based in Seattle, Washington, that advocates the pseudoscientific concept[7][8][9] of intelligent design (ID). Its "Teach the Controversy" campaign aims to permit the teaching of anti-evolution, intelligent-design beliefs in United States public high school science courses in place of accepted scientific theories, positing that a scientific controversy exists over these subjects.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

    Wow, Wikipedia! Look at all those citations!

    Further:

    Discovery Institute Press
    Discovery Institute Press is the Institute's publishing arm[18] and has published intelligent design books by its fellows including David Berlinski's Deniable Darwin & Other Essays (2010), Jonathan Wells' The Myth of Junk DNA (2011) and an edited volume titled Signature Of Controversy, which contains apologetic works in defense of the Institute's Center for Science and Culture director Stephen C. Meyer.

    Intelligent Design, eh? Paley's Watchmaker argument, still? Again?

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:21PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:21PM (#801213)

    Looks like many of them retired, looking forward to meeting their creator. And 1000 is not exactly a large number. Like 6 million PhDs in America alone ... so yeah, scrapping the floor.

    Also, the question is dubious. Might as well ask "does Darwin explain how life was created?". And the answer is obviously no. Evolution is a process, not a "42" answer.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:23PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:23PM (#801215)

      Are we talking 1000 PhDs in Theology?