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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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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @06:54PM (2 children)
Maybe these are the last real scientists. You see, Science is not blind acceptance of the textbooks, it is seeking and challenging the boundaries of our (limited) knowledge. Real science expands those boundaries by questioning, looking at thing a bit differently and coming up with better theories which can then be proved out. Einstein did not finf his theory written up in a textbook. Darwin proposed a THEORY and there has been a lot of manufactured "fact" around that. Evolution is the Redpill of the we-dont-want-to-be-accountable Humanist circle. So it has become a politicized religion (belief system). Good, genuine science says: challenge it, test it, look harder. Nothing bad with that. If you get all frothy over it, maybe it is time to examine how brainwashed you have become, and look at who did it to you and why. Wake up, Neo...
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:11PM
Skepticism is welcome, and should be encouraged. We need people who find some flaw somewhere, to help advance science and theories.
But this statement is like kids saying they don't like mushrooms. There's nothing scientific about it.
"I am skeptical that grand canyon exists, because its layers and topography are complex. You can explain it, but I don't like your idea"
As expected, the overwhelming majority of people who signed are from the US, followed pretty far behind by Canada.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @08:23PM
Most of the fossil record shows generally gradual change. We can trace almost every hand bone back to fossils of ancient fish. And we have seen organisms "change" by a relatively minor degree by filtering who reproduces and who doesn't in labs.
While both of these are not perfect evidence of large-scale evolution by natural selection, they certainly point in that direction.
The alternative theory is that a deity winked them into existence. However, we have not seem ANY repeatable small scale winking into existence. Therefore, N.S. remains the best explanation to fit the evidence so far, going by what has been observed and what has been repeatedly observed.