Posted by
Tom G. on Friday, April 04, 2008 3:13:09 PM
We like to see our ‘age’ as the age of Reason. We scoff or laugh at the immature or un-enlightened minds of the recent past. Yet, Discovery of the modern Theories on Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift are modern. They play very much into the older Darwin Theory of Natural Selection and Evolution. Yet, scrutiny of Darwin is being maligned, as have scientific skepticism of Anthropogenic Global Warming, in a political or politicized scientific denial.
A Scientific Dissent on Darwinism
"I am 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." Jed Macasko-Cal Berkeley
Al Gore, the IPCC and other bodies have called APG a FACT, while ignoring and maligning critics. This pattern of Scientific Fascism is now being played out in the Study of Darwin’s Theories and Evolution. Skeptics are being giving the cold shoulder, packaged with people of Faith in the Secular Scientific effort to marginalize the skeptic and pigeonhole the critics as being nonsensical or worse, people blinded by faith.
Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based public policy center, compiled the list of statement signers (attached). Among other things, the long list may help to answer the contention of designated spokespeople for the series "Evolution" that "virtually all reputable scientists in the world" support Darwin's theory. Institute officials charge that officials of WGBH/Clear Blue Sky Productions have used that contention to keep any scientific criticism of Darwinism from being acknowledged or examined in the eight-hour series. "They want people to think that the only criticism of Darwin's theory today is from religious fundamentalists," said Discovery president Bruce Chapman. "They routinely try to stigmatize scientists who question Darwin as 'creationists'."
Most interestingly, a form of Scientific Fascism has emerged in recent times with the secular humanists creating their own religion based upon the arrogance of the human mind…rejecting and categorically denying any argument as being unworthy of consideration, and certainly not worth to be tested by the scientific method…
"The numbers of scientists who question Darwinism is a minority, but it is growing fast," said Stephen Meyer, a Cambridge-educated philosopher of science who directs the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture at Discovery Institute. "This is happening in the face of fierce attempts to intimidate and suppress legitimate dissent. Young scientists are threatened with deprivation of tenure. Others have seen a consistent pattern of answering scientific arguments with ad hominem attacks. In particular, the series' attempt to stigmatize all critics--including scientists--as religious 'creationists' is an excellent example of viewpoint discrimination."
Signers of the statement questioning Darwinism came from throughout the US and from several other countries, representing biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, anthropology and other scientific fields. Professors and researchers at such universities as Princeton, MIT, U Penn, and Yale, as well as smaller colleges and the National Laboratories at Livermore, CA and Los Alamos, N.M., are included. A number of the signers have authored or contributed to books on issues related to evolution, or have books underway.
Despite repeated requests, the series' producers refused to cover scientific objections to Darwinism. Instead, the producers offered only to let scientific dissenters go on camera to tell their "personal faith stories" in the last program of the series, "What About God?" According to Discovery's Chapman, "This was almost an insult to serious scientists. Some of these dissenting scientists are not even religious. When you watch that last program, you realize they were wise to refuse to take part in it."
Jed Macosko, a young research molecular biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and a statement signer, said, "It is time for defenders of Darwin to engage in serious dialogue and debate with their scientific critics. Science can't grow where institutional gatekeepers try to prevent new challengers from being heard."
We have found recently a Judge in England who ruled on FACTUAL errors in Al Gores propaganda docu-farse about Global Warming that is being shown in public schools all over the world without rebuke. Our tax dollars are going to PBS to offer one-sided theories that refuse to consider an alternative theory or be scrutinized.
The environment of open scholarly thought has been eroding on Campus’ all over the country where instructors no longer engage in true Liberal Arts education or Scientific Methods to discern the possible outcomes, theories or possible truths, rather they have been replaced with ‘Political Correct Thinking.’
"consensus" does not mean "unanamous".
* Items in red were pulled from the Discovery Institute press release seen at the link above.