{"id":192683,"date":"2019-08-05T07:55:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T07:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192683"},"modified":"2019-08-09T07:28:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T07:28:12","slug":"leading-yale-professor-pushes-back-against-darwins-theory-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192683","title":{"rendered":"Leading Yale Professor Pushes Back Against Darwin\u2019s Theory of Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Via 21st Century Wire \u2013 August 4, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Darwin-Design.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-192684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Darwin-Design.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Darwin-Design.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Darwin-Design-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Was Darwin wrong? Bring this question up in mainstream academia and you\u2019re likely to be attacked by colleague and media operatives alike, if not run-out of any institution you\u2019re working at.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to some, the \u2018glory days\u2019 of science are over. In\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/cross-check\/was-i-wrong-about-8220-the-end-of-science-8221\/\"><em>The End of Science<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span><em>, <\/em>author John Horgan contends that, \u201cScience will keep extending and tweaking its current paradigms, like evolution by natural selection and the big bang, but there won\u2019t be any more comparably profound \u2018revelations or revolutions.&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Others are taking this inquiry a bit further, and actually dismantling the highest sacred cows of science, including the seemingly untouchable: Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution. They are asking a fundamental question: since new evidence and knowledge that functioning proteins are extremely rare, then maybe Darwin should be replaced with a theory of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ideacenter.org\/contentmgr\/showdetails.php\/id\/1170\">intelligent design<\/a><\/strong><\/span>? If so, then the following two questions are essential:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Has modern science developed institutionalized dogmatic belief structures that are similar to that of the church?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Has Darwinism really failed?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Probing for answers\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><em>\u2018The origin of species is exactly what Darwin cannot explain\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><em>Jennifer Kabbany<\/em><\/strong><em> from <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/famed-yale-computer-science-professor-quits-believing-darwins-theories\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>College Fix<\/strong><\/span><\/a> writes\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">David Gelernter, a famed Yale University professor, has publicly renounced his belief in Charles Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution, calling it a \u201cbeautiful idea\u201d that has been effectively disproven. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/seas.yale.edu\/faculty-research\/faculty-directory\/david-gelernter\">Gelernter<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In May, the <em>Claremont Review of Books<\/em> published a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.claremont.org\/crb\/article\/giving-up-darwin\/\">column<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>by Gelernter headlined \u201cGiving Up Darwin.\u201d 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In particular, he cited Stephen Meyer\u2019s 2013 book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Darwins-Doubt-Explosive-Origin-Intelligent\/dp\/0062071483\"><em>Darwin\u2019s Doubt<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span> as well as <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Deniable-Darwin-Other-Essays\/dp\/0979014123\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Deniable Darwin<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> by David Berlinski. The professor expanded on his views in an interview with Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institution that was published last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Gelernter stops short of fully embracing intelligent design, both in his <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.claremont.org\/crb\/article\/giving-up-darwin\/\">essay<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and during his <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=noj4phMT9OE\">interview<\/a>. He said in his interview he sees intelligence in Earth\u2019s design, and has no quarrel with ID proponents, but notes the world is a mess, its suffering far outweighs its goodness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cMy argument is with people who dismiss intelligent design without considering, it seems to me \u2014 it\u2019s widely dismissed in my world of academia as some sort of theological put up job \u2014 it\u2019s an absolutely serious scientific argument,\u201d Gelernter said during his interview. \u201cIn fact it\u2019s the first and most obvious and intuitive one that comes to mind. It\u2019s got to be dealt with intellectually.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Gelernter conducted his interview alongside Meyer and Berlinski, and the three weighed in on the problems facing Darwinian and neo-Darwinian evolution.\u00a0 <em>Watch:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/noj4phMT9OE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Gelernter said an ideological bent has taken over the field of science. There are good scientists doing good work, \u201cbut we have a cautionary tale in what happened to our English departments and our history departments could happen to us, God forbid,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Gelernter said he likes many of his colleagues at Yale, that they are his friends, but when he looks at \u201ctheir intellectual behavior, what they have published \u2014 and much more importantly what they tell their students \u2014 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/famed-yale-computer-science-professor-quits-believing-darwins-theories\/\"><em>Continue this story at College Fix<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To question it was almost heresy but now some are re-examining and finding unanswered questions in Darwin\u2019s theory  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-The_Ancient_Past"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192705,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192683\/revisions\/192705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}