I think he meant to say arguments against evolution have been exonerated...
No awards ceremonies for such candidates?
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
Correct.
self ping
<< 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.
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.
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.
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In other words, he isn’t a biologist.
“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...
There’s not ‘a missing link’ - all the links are missing.
You have to have the blinders on tightly believe life began randomly.
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.
Computer Science, eh?
Calling it “Darwinism” tells you all you need to know about the intellectual rigor of this guy.
Darwin’s hypothesis should never have been labeled theory.
The evidence that I find most compelling for the hypothesis that all higher life forms are evolved from simpler life forms is the commonality of the genetic code. Every form of life shares the same DNA encoding mechanisms and that mechanism itself evolved as a more stable molecule from its RNA ancestor. The same five nucleotides, the same 20 amino acids, the same drift statistics in the mitochondrial DNA, the same cellular machinery of ribosomes generating proteins from mRNA copied from the nuclear DNA, every species shares the same evolutionary history at the cellular level. An intelligent designer would not constrain every species this way because it would be redundant and inefficient and subject to massive failures due to disease and decay over time. It also is optimized for the survival of populations at the expense of individual members. The most important design feature of life is that it dies hopefully after it reproduces. Is this sacrifice of the individual for the survival of the population something a loving intelligence would design in?
Since professor David Gelernter could not have come from natural selection, which he is trying to invalidate, then where did he come from? Uh. David, think A - B = C. Without A or B, There can’t be a C. So you don’t exist as you deny A and can’t provide a B.
If genius comes from highly educated people, then why are there still idiots like him? (Sorry George)
rwood
As we grow older, the life long nagging of Devine revelation will ultimately take its toll.
The True, The Good and The Beautiful will find it’s way through the most stubborn of minds.
This may be off topic, but I have always noticed that intelligent design is completely incompatible with free will.
God creates you with His own personal chemical formula.
He chooses the time period and the geographic region you grow up in.
He chooses your parents and your family.
He chooses your IQ and your physical abilities and disabilities.
Then, He tells you if you do not calmly accept every decision He has made, and if you do not worship Him, He will torture you for all eternity after you die.
Forget that noise!
Human beings do not have free will unless they have a fully informed opportunity to opt out of being born.