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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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More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement
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(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 14 2019, @06:33PM (8 children)
Here's the list. [discovery.org]
Notice how few of them are biologists or in relevant fields.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @06:53PM (1 child)
Kinda like the 97%
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @04:43AM
I modded you "Touché" because that was the closest thing to "Ouch".
(Score: 2, Interesting) by fakefuck39 on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:19PM (5 children)
I think this here is a case of fox vs cnn, men's rights retards vs feminist retards, etc. The list is almost entirely scientists, and almost entirely in relevant fields - bilology, chemistry, genetics, etc. I'll assume your comment was sarcasm.
The issue is, idiots, like people posting most comments here, are looking to attack creationism and religion, and look for a fight where there is none. First, a thousand scientists is literally nothing - it's a statistical decimal rounding error when looking at all the scientists in the same fields. The statement they sign also does not claim evolution is false. Actually most creationists don't even say evolution is false. Evolution is taken as fact, you know, since we can see it happen and we have dogs and shit. Natural Selection is a possible theory that explains the directions evolution follows.
Nothing here, nor these scientists are saying there is no evolution, or that creationism is correct. They are saying Natural Selection as a theory to explain the fact of evolution, needs to be closer examined for alternatives - and there's nothing wrong with that besides being a waste of time - but not your time. Their time. Here's another theory to explain evolution, which is highly unlikely, and highly funny, but possible. A long time ago, from a galaxy far away, some weird beings came here and liked to watch monkeys fuck. They bred a bunch of smart monkeys together for a while and we got the first dog. I mean man - the first man.
We need to stop putting assumptions in people's mouths so we could say "that's a stupid thing they said" - they're not the ones who said the stupid thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @10:46PM (1 child)
That's not a theory, it's ancient aliens.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @11:27PM
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(Score: 2) by Weasley on Friday February 15 2019, @03:40PM (2 children)
While you're correct this statement doesn't actually say evolution is wrong, but come on. The signatories know exactly that they're attaching their name to a conservative political entity that pushes intelligent design. They're not making the intellectually honest statement that there could be more to evolution than meets the eye. They're making a statement that God has been influencing the process.
(Score: 0) by fakefuck39 on Saturday February 16 2019, @07:50PM
they are making the statement they made, nothing more. while their beliefs are obvious and the organization is obvious - do you see them making a creationism statement? no. they recognize their view is one of faith not science, and limit their statement to science. they would like to prove god is influencing the process, but they do not call for investigation into proving god, or disproving evolution. they as scientists call for a scientific investigation into natural selection, and as scientists leave the bible out of it. the only one making a statement about god here is you - as was my point.
(Score: 2) by DeVilla on Thursday February 21 2019, @03:08AM