Anyone think they can take him on?

[Guest guest]

I think his points (that ID is just another right manouever like the

controversy over the climate) are disproven by the fact that presently over

400 top scientists have signed a list expressing their doubts about

Darwinism. Take a look here:

 

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2732&progr

am=CSC%20-%20Views%20and%20News

 

 

If you don't have access to the internet, here is the article:

 

Headline: Over 400 Scientists Convinced by New Scientific Evidence That

Darwinian Evolution is Deficient

 

By: Staff

Discovery Institute

August 6, 2005

 

 

SEATTLE — More than 400 scientists have signed onto a growing list from all

disciplines who are “skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation

and natural selection to account for the complexity of life.”

 

“Darwin’s theory of evolution is the great white elephant of contemporary

thought,” said Dr. David Berlinski, a mathematician and philosopher of

science with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture (CSC). “It

is large, almost completely useless, and the object of superstitious awe.”

 

Discovery Institute first published its Statement of Dissent from Darwin in

2001 and a direct challenge to statements made in PBS’ “Evolution” series

that no scientists disagreed with Darwinian evolution.

 

“The fact is that a significant number of scientists are extremely skeptical

that Darwinian evolution can explain the origins of life,” said Dr. John G.

West, associate director of the CSC. “We expect that as scientists engage in

the wider debate over materialist evolutionary theories, this list will

continue to grow, and grow at an even more rapid pace than we’ve seen this

past year.”

 

In the last 90 days, 29 scientists, including eight biologists, have signed

the “Scientific Dissent From Darwinism.” The list includes over 70

biologists.

 

The most recent signatories are Lev V. Beloussov and Vladimir L. Voeikov,

two prominent Russian biologists from Moscow State University. Dr. Voeikov

is a professor of bioorganic chemistry and Dr. Beloussov is a professor of

embryology an Honorary Professor at Moscow State University and a member of

the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

 

“The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism, which is sold by its adepts

as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology, seriously hampers the

development of science and hides from students the field’s real problems,”

said Professor Voeikov.

 

“Lately in the media there’s been a lot of talk about science versus

religion,” said West. “But such talk is misleading. This list is a witness

to the growing group of scientists who challenge Darwinian theory on

scientific grounds.”

 

Other prominent biologists who have signed the list include evolutionary

biologist and textbook author Dr. Stanley Salthe, Dr. Richard von Sternberg,

an evolutionary biologist at the Smithsonian Institution and the National

Institutes of Health’s National Center for Biotechnology Information, and

Giuseppe Sermonti, Editor of Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum. The list

also includes scientists from Princeton, Cornell, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Ohio

State University, Purdue and University of Washington among others.