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By JoeBruno
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Criticisms of Evolution

"Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are
great con-men, And the story they are telling may be the GREATEST HOAX
EVER." -- Dr.T.N.Tahmisian, Atomic Energy Commission

"We must concede that there are presently no detailed Darwinian
accounts of the evolution of any biochemical or cellular system, only
a variety of wishful speculations." -- Franklin Harold, Emeritus
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Colorado State
University, in an Oxford University Press text.

"Darwinian evolution - whatever its other virtues - does not provide a
fruitful heuristic in experimental biology. This becomes especially
clear when we compare it with a heuristic framework such as the atomic
model, which opens up structural chemistry and leads to advances in
the synthesis of a multitude of new molecules of practical benefit.
None of this demonstrates that Darwinism is false. It does, however,
mean that the claim that it is the cornerstone of modern experimental
biology will be met with quiet skepticism from a growing number of
scientists in fields where theories actually do serve as cornerstones
for tangible breakthroughs." --U.S. National Academy of Sciences
member Philip Skell

"[The] Darwinian claim to explain all of evolution is a popular
half-truth whose lack of explicative power is compensated for only by
the religious ferocity of its rhetoric." --National Academy of
Sciences member Lynn Margulis

"Mutations have a very limited ?constructive capacity? . No matter how
numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution."
--Past president of the French Academy of Sciences Pierre-Paul Grasse

"The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major
transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our
imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has
been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of
evolution." --Late American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould

"Phylogenetic incongruities can be seen everywhere in the universal
tree, from its root to the major branchings within and among the
various taxa to the makeup of the primary groupings themselves." --The
father of molecular systematics, Carl Woese

"Most of the animal phyla that are represented in the fossil record
first appear, 'fully formed,' in the Cambrian . The fossil record is
therefore of no help with respect to the origin and early
diversification of the various animal phyla." --Invertebrate Zoology
Textbook

"It remains a mystery how the undirected process of mutation, combined
with natural selection, has resulted in the creation of thousands of
new proteins with extraordinarily diverse and well optimized
functions. This problem is particularly acute for tightly integrated
molecular systems that consist of many interacting parts." --Two
leading biologists inAnnual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

"New species usually appear in the fossil record suddenly, not
connected with their ancestors by a series of intermediates."
--Eminent evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr

Science now know that many of the pillars of the Darwinian theory are
either false or misleading. Yet biology texts continue to present them
as factual evidence of Evolution. What does this imply about their
scientific standards? - Jonathan Wells

The bacteriologist Alan H. Linton wrote:

"None exists in the literature claiming that one species has been
shown to evolve into another. Bacteria, the simplest form of
independent life, are ideal for this kind of study, with generation
times of twenty to thirty minutes, and populations achieved after
eighteen hours. But throughout 150 years of the science of
bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has
changed into another. Since there is no evidence for species changes
between the simplest forms of unicellular life, it is not surprising
that there is no evidence for evolution from prokaryotic to eukaryotic
cells, let alone throughout the whole array of higher muliticellular
organisms."

Evolutionary biologists Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan echoed the same
thing in 2002:
"Speciation, whether in the remote Galapagos, in the laboratory cages
of the drosophilosophers, or in the crowded sediments of the
paleontologists, still has never been traced."

Scientific Dissent From Darwinism

https://www.discovery.org/m/2020/04/Sci ... 072020.pdf


 
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... y-excerpt/

Paleontologist Explains What The Fossils Really Say

https://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/ ... ay.935592/
By late
#15205189
You need a bullet, not a shotgun...

Some of those guys are kooks, but not all.

There are scientists that can't see the forest for the trees. Their work is in the details, and if you do that, you will wish you had a lot more information.

Which doesn't change the facts one bit.

The gold standard in science is productivity. Work that inspires more work is what you want, and no major theory has inspired more good science than evolution.

You don't throw away a theory that's still working. That's not how science works. You need something better.

And that, my friend, you do not have.
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By JoeBruno
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LOL! Lots of those scientists have PhDs in their fields. What qualifications have you got?Haha!
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Mistakes, gaps in knowledge, paradigm extinctions, etc are part and parcel of scientific inquiry. Given the contingent nature of human knowledge, we will always be either refining theories or replacing them.

However, it should be pointed out that you cannot logically infer the truth of Biblical creationism from failure of any theory of Darwin or his succesors.

If God does not play dice with the universe, neither does he pop up with supernatural interventions in the working of the universe.

That would be cheating.
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quetzalcoatl wrote:Mistakes, gaps in knowledge, paradigm extinctions, etc are part and parcel of scientific inquiry. Given the contingent nature of human knowledge, we will always be either refining theories or replacing them.

However, it should be pointed out that you cannot logically infer the truth of Biblical creationism from failure of any theory of Darwin or his succesors.

If God does not play dice with the universe, neither does he pop up with supernatural interventions in the working of the universe.

That would be cheating.

Don't get me wrong I'm an atheist. But, an all knowing God. would not need to intervene. He would know when every atom would decay and exactly which direction every particle or gamma ray would travel and so what it would smash into after traveling a million miles.

Of course, the God of the Bible changes his mind. An example is Noah's flood. God seems to be surprised that He needed to kill almost all the people. There are many other examples.
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By late
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JoeBruno wrote:
LOL! Lots of those scientists have PhDs in their fields. What qualifications have you got? Haha!



If that's for me, I studied the history and philosophy of science.

Also, most PHD degrees are specialities, we're talking at a level that corresponds to an undergrad level of scientific knowledge.

Academics beat on Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions mercilessly. But it's still the best book for the lay person to get a feel for how science works.
https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-50th-Anniversary-dp-0226458121/dp/0226458121/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

There are hundreds of books about evolution. This is one of the better ones:
https://www.amazon.com/What-Evolution-Science-Masters-Series/dp/0465044263%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAI3OYETBV64K3DUFQ%26tag%3Dthecholis-20%26linkCode%3Dsp1%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0465044263#customerReviews

I am a big fan of Stephen Jay Gould. He has a great book explaining evolution, but it's several hundred pages long. But this one is easy to read, and is about the work that got him the Nobel prize:
https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Life-Burgess-Nature-History/dp/039330700X%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAI3OYETBV64K3DUFQ%26tag%3Dthecholis-20%26linkCode%3Dsp1%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D039330700X

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