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

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: 5, Interesting) by fyngyrz on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:46PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:46PM (#801158) Journal

    Genetic Algorithms [wikipedia.org], based on Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection, exist and are very useful for optimization.

    I've written genetic software (fun example here [datapipe-blackbeltsystems.com]) and I can tell you it can do some pretty amazing things.

    Given one or more fatal stressors, a gene/breeding strategy very much like our own (random characteristics from two surviving parents, possibly incorporating preference for higher performance parents, but not necessarily), evolutionary software can produce strong winning strategies from nothing but random garbage. Repeatably. Dependably.

    There's no question that it works. Until or unless evidence for another effective mechanism is produced, evolution is the only valid contender for the complexity of life.

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    I got mood poisioning. Must have been something I hate.

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