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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: 3, Touché) by urza9814 on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:04PM (1 child)

    by urza9814 (3954) on Thursday February 14 2019, @08:04PM (#801170) Journal

    As any software engineer with a passing familiarity with biology will attest, there's nothing at all "intelligent" about "the complexity of life". Biology is full of awful hacks, stupidly interrelated systems, and literally life-stopping errors just waiting for to be activated by accident.

    Most software engineers will also attest that there's nothing intelligent about the complexity of the software they're currently working on for exactly the same reasons... :)

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:35PM (#801226)

    To simplify the complexity, copy paste all the code and previous versions into one almighty function called main(). Add one huge block of comments to help distunguish between Old and New versions of the code. Accept that it works in mysterious ways. There - much simpler!