The Questioning Christian

Any Biologist Would Love to Disprove Evolution

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D. C. Toedt III

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From Darwin Among the Believers, by Frederick Turner (paragraphing added):

There are at least 50 major journals in the academic field of biology. All accept without question the theory of evolution as I outlined it above.

They are not attempting even to prove the theory, any more than math journals attempt to prove that the sum of the internal angles of a plane triangle is 180 degrees, or engineering journals revisit the existence of gravity. But they would be nonsense without the theory of evolution, just as engineering would be nonsense without gravity. Each of those journals is published about four times a year; several of them have been in existence for over a hundred years.

Each journal contains at least ten articles of about 2-20 pages, and each of those articles represents several months’ or years’ work by a team of trained biologists whose most compelling material and moral interest would be to disprove the work of all their predecessors and to make an immortal name by doing so.

(Hat tip:  TitusOneNine)

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  1. nathan Avatar
    nathan

    “They are not attempting even to prove the theory”
    “each of those articles represents several months’ or years’ work by a team of trained biologists whose most compelling material and moral interest would be to disprove the work of all their predecessors”
    This seems a bit strange, if you’re reading it as I do. Not that I’m particularly opposed to the way evolutionary sub-theories have come and gone over the years, but these biologists could be seen by many as having been trained and indoctrinated into a particular paradigm (the more broad Darwinian concept) which will allow no outside thinking.
    The first sentence above admits that without this particular frame of thinking, all of these 50 major journals would not exist. Surely these journals ARE attempting constantly to “prove” the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, in the same way that I might “prove” a tool by testing it’s edges and strength.

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