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DISSENT FROM DARWIN “GOES GLOBAL” AS OVER 600 SCIENTISTS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD EXPRESS THEIR DOUBTS ABOUT DARWIN’S THEORY
SEATTLE — Over 600 doctoral scientists from around the world have now signed a
statement publicly expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of
Darwinian evolution. The statement, located online at www.dissentfromdarwin.org,
reads: “We are 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.”
The fastest growing segment of the list is scientists from outside the United
States. International scientists now represent just over 12% of all signers,
and as a group has seen nearly 40% growth in the past four months.
“I signed the Scientific Dissent From Darwinism statement, because I am
absolutely convinced of the lack of true scientific evidence in favour of
Darwinian dogma,” said Raul Leguizamon, M. D., Pathologist, and a professor of
medicine at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
“Nobody in the biological sciences, medicine included, needs Darwinism at all,”
added Leguizamon. “Darwinism is certainly needed, however, in order to pose as a
philosopher, since it is primarily a worldview. And an awful one, as Bernard
Shaw used to say.”
The list of 610 signatories includes member scientists from National Academies
of Science in Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary, India (Hindustan), Nigeria,
Poland, Russia and the United States. Many of the signers are professors or
researchers at major universities and international research institutions such
as Cambridge University, British Museum of Natural History, Moscow State
University, Masaryk University in Czech Republic, Hong Kong University,
University of Turku in Finland, Autonomous
University of Guadalajara in Mexico, University of Stellenbosch in South Africa,
Institut de Paléontologie Humaine in France, Chitose Institute of Science &
Technology in Japan, Ben-Gurion University in Israel, MIT, The Smithsonian and
Princeton.
“Dissent from Darwinism has gone global,” said Discovery Institute President
Bruce Chapman, former US Ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna. “Darwinists
used to claim that virtually every scientist in the world held that Darwinian
evolution was true, but we quickly started finding US scientists that disproved
that statement. Now we’re finding that there are hundreds, and probably
thousands, of scientists all over the world that don’t subscribe to Darwin’s
theory.”
Discovery Institute first published its Scientific Dissent From Darwinism list
in 2001 to challenge false statements about Darwinian evolution made in
promoting PBS’s “Evolution” series. At the time it was claimed that “virtually
every scientist in the world believes the theory to be true.”
Prominent signatories include U.S. National Academy of Sciences member Philip
Skell; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow Lyle Jensen;
evolutionary biologist and textbook author Stanley Salthe; Smithsonian
Institution evolutionary biologist and a researcher at the National Institutes
of Health’s National Center for Biotechnology Information Richard von Sternberg;
Editor of Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum --the oldest still published
biology journal in the world--
Giuseppe Sermonti; and Russian Academy of Natural Sciences embryologist Lev
Beloussov.
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