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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:15PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:15PM (#801209)

    > how to we get drift in the numbers of chromosomes

    So, there's some really interesting mechanisms! Basically meiois doesn't discard them all, normally? But there are others.

    Can these organisms be viable? Yes! Humans with Down Syndrome have an extra chromosome 21 and can reproduce sometimes. The point is not that they can usually reproduce, but that they can, ever, at all. Because if it /can/ be viable, then if there's an advantage conferred, it is likely to promulgate. Look at N-ploid plants, where the cellular mechanisms have been better studied (hellooooo wheat!).

    Short version: interesting question, lots of science going on, but we have examples of organisms where this has (spontaneously, unless you say G-d reached in and manipulated the nucleotide strands) happened, and with some carcinogens, can pretty easily make first-generation abnormal-count chromosome progeny.

  • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:41PM

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 14 2019, @09:41PM (#801229) Journal

    According to one of the articles AC posted on this earlier, luck will do fine in place of an advantage (an advantage would be advantageous of course...)

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