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Famed Yale computer science professor quits believing Darwin’s theories
College Fix ^ | JULY 30, 2019 | JENNIFER KABBANY

Posted on 08/02/2019 7:49:16 PM PDT by robowombat

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I believe David Gelertner was nearly killed by one of the Unibomber's mail bombs for his role in the Internet.
1 posted on 08/02/2019 7:49:17 PM PDT by robowombat
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a “beautiful idea” that has been effectively disproven.

I think he meant to say arguments against evolution have been exonerated...

2 posted on 08/02/2019 7:52:38 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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Or did he mean Darwin has not been exonerated?


3 posted on 08/02/2019 7:53:27 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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Will this mean that the theory of a Darwin Candidate is not valid?

No awards ceremonies for such candidates?

4 posted on 08/02/2019 8:01:44 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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HaHa. Welcome home. What took you so long? He finally recognized that evolution is a fable, only accepted because the alternative explanation is clearly untenable to most “erudite” scientists. What a joke. I’ll bet he never read G. A. Kerkuts’ book. https://archive.org/details/implicationsofev00kerk


5 posted on 08/02/2019 8:03:55 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: robowombat

Correct.


6 posted on 08/02/2019 8:04:09 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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A rehash of all the old, debunked anti-evolution arguments. At least he admits he doesn’t know what he is talking about.


7 posted on 08/02/2019 8:04:19 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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“A rehash of all the old, debunked anti-evolution arguments.”

Which are the debunked arguments he rehashes?


8 posted on 08/02/2019 8:10:27 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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self ping


9 posted on 08/02/2019 8:12:08 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: robowombat

<< Darwinism has indeed passed beyond a scientific argument as far as they are concerned. You take your life in your hands to challenge it intellectually. They will destroy you if you challenge it.” >>

Behavior similar to that of the global warming cultists.


10 posted on 08/02/2019 8:13:43 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mail-bomb-injures-yale-professor

On June 24, 1993, Yale University computer science professor David Gelernter is seriously injured while opening his mail when a padded envelope explodes in his hands.

In the aftermath of the attack on Gelernter, various federal departments established the UNABOM Task Force, which launched an intensive search for the so-called “Unabomber.” The bombings, along with 14 others since 1978 that killed 3 people and injured 23 others, were eventually linked to Theodore John Kaczynski, a former mathematician from Chicago.


11 posted on 08/02/2019 8:14:01 PM PDT by missthethunder
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Here is the essay.

https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/giving-up-darwin/


12 posted on 08/02/2019 8:14:34 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Gelernter, who is known for predicting the World Wide Web and has developed many complex computing tools over the years, is today a professor of computer science at Yale, chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies, member of the National Council of the Arts, and a prolific author.

...

In other words, he isn’t a biologist.


13 posted on 08/02/2019 8:20:04 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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“In May, the Claremont Review of Books published a column by Gelernter headlined “Giving Up Darwin.” In it, he explained how his readings and discussions of Darwinian evolution and its competing theories, namely intelligent design, have convinced him Darwin had it wrong.

In particular, he cited Stephen Meyer’s 2013 book Darwin’s Doubt as well as The Deniable Darwin by David Berlinski.”

I read “Darwin’s Doubt” four, five years ago and also the other book by Stephen Meyer, “Signature in the Cell”. I was always a bit of a skeptic, but those two books pushed me way over the edge. They are truly intellectual tour de force and I highly recommend them to anyone interested in evolution or intelligent design.

Here’s a great presentation on “Darwin’s Doubt” by Meyer...

https://youtu.be/Vg8bqXGrRa0


14 posted on 08/02/2019 8:25:00 PM PDT by aquila48
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I’m satisfied with the theory that people who believe the evolution of monkey to man do so as justification for their denial of God.


15 posted on 08/02/2019 8:29:58 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: ifinnegan

“Which are the debunked arguments he rehashes?”

All of them.


16 posted on 08/02/2019 8:38:54 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: robowombat

There’s not ‘a missing link’ - all the links are missing.


17 posted on 08/02/2019 8:53:23 PM PDT by GOPJ (Every Democrat-run city is a paradise. Period. OR YOUR'RE A RACIST... - freeper Telepathic Intruder)
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To: robowombat

You have to have the blinders on tightly believe life began randomly.


18 posted on 08/02/2019 8:55:24 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: robowombat

you are correct, he is related to a friend.

interesting man.

Personally I was convinced to relook at Darwin after reading Darwin’s Black Box by Behe.

I don’t know what happened, but it wasn’t any sort of macro evolution.


19 posted on 08/02/2019 8:57:32 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: robowombat

Computer Science, eh?

Calling it “Darwinism” tells you all you need to know about the intellectual rigor of this guy.


20 posted on 08/02/2019 9:06:51 PM PDT by semimojo
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