Scientists to Detail How Charles Darwin was Wrong on Evolution
SANTA ANA, CA -- While many people continue to believe in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, a group of scientists will present overwhelming scientific evidence against Darwin's speculations.
"If Charles Darwin knew 150 years ago what we know today, he likely would not have published Origin of the Species," said John Baumgardner, Ph.D., whose organization, Logos Research Associates, will lead the two-day "Darwin Was Wrong" conference Nov. 13-14 at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa.
"We can perhaps excuse Darwin, given his ignorance about the true complexity of living organisms and about genetics," said Dr. Baumgardner, a geophysicist whose career was as research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M. "Today's knowledge of molecular biology, however, has made Darwin's imagined single-cell-organism-to-man evolution indefensible."
Seven Ph.D scientists will highlight Darwin’s mistakes from genetics, geology, molecular biology, paleontology and other science areas.
Geneticist John Sanford, Ph.D., will show where Darwin went wrong with natural selection. "It is amazing to me that in this 'year of Darwin,' the whole world is bowing down to this man even while modern science is proving him wrong on all fronts," said Dr. Sanford, vice president of Logos and inventor of the world-famous "gene gun" while a Cornell professor in the 1980s. "Natural selection happens but it does not do what Darwin needed it to do. Darwin built a worldview that has come to be the governing paradigm of the intellectual community; that worldview is now collapsing in the face of new advances in science."
Another Logos founding scientist, geologist Steven A. Austin, Ph.D., has traveled to southern Argentina to document Darwin's geological mistakes. "Let nobody confuse you -- Darwin was a geologist, but he was wrong about geology," said Dr. Austin, who just returned from leading a Geological Society of America field trip to Mount St. Helens, Wash., where volcanic eruptions in 1980 and 1982 formed in just hours what many geologists had thought took much longer to form. "Mount St. Helens proved these changes can occur in days - not millions or billions of years."
Other conference speakers include:
Dr. Charles Ware, president of Crossroads Bible College, Indianapolis, Ind., and a chaplain for the Indiana Pacers basketball and Indianapolis Colts football teams, who will show Darwin's errors regarding race and the legacy of racial conflict;
Pastor Chuck Smith, senior pastor and teacher at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, who will address how Darwin was wrong about God.
Robert Carter, Ph.D., a marine biologist, who will discuss Darwin’s mistakes regarding the complexity of life and the origin of man;
Jerry Bergman, Ph.D., a biologist who has recently written a book called The Slaughter of the Dissidents that details the automatic expulsion from academic circles of those who criticize or question evolution. He will show how Darwin was wrong about the so-called tree of life, one of evolution's major icons;
Marcus Ross, Ph.D., a paleontologist who will address Darwin's errors regarding the fossil record;
Thomas McMullen, Ph.D., who will demonstrate how Darwin was wrong about science.
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Being baited.
Nothing in this aticle is worth responding too, other than to note what a Ph.D. in and of itself is worth nowadays; and maybe to giggle about how this "debate" gets turned out by the religious lobby.
The reason why Darwin is the only name you usually hear from these idiots is that they are still trying to argue with antiquated concepts, even though they fair little better with a time machine than they do today, where even Texas won't support creationisn in schools . Well, that and the fact that most of the people denying history are incapable for comprehending a modern text on the subject.
Humanity evolved from other primates, and we have common ancestry with the rest of the apes, and the rest of life in general. It is the truth.
Grow up and get over it.
When we look at all the mistakes of scientists before us, at how much we don't know now about simply every day things like "why do we yawn". When we consider how little we know about the depths of the oceans on our own planet or the fact that we claim the planet is getting colder, I mean warmer, I mean colder, ....
My point is, science has proven to be wrong as much as it has shown to be right. The idea behind science is to determine truths based on scientific methods.
Anyone who takes something science says and claims, "It is the truth" will likely turn out to be wrong in 10 years when scientific methods or information change .
But don't try to rationalize it.
Science has never been proven "wrong". It proves things false, or maintains them true.
It's this idea that anything is going to give easy answers to our hopes and prayers that belies a woeful misunderstanding or science , or knowledge in general.
Also, the methods of science hardly " change ". The tools evolve, and the field in general is diaspora. But it's basic concepts are perennial.
And though what we learn from science might be a better understanding or more correct information, there is an undeniable trend towards a holistic parsimonious desciption of reality that no other inudstry or philosophy has ever provided to any comparable degree.
I do love how groups like AiG seem to harp on Darwin as though they thought that the scientific community considered his writings as some kind of infallible works that are revered as the absolute truth.
It's like pointing out flaws in Johannes Kepler's works as proof against modern astronomy.
Advice to Mr. Baumgardner: if you are going to arrange a conference to show why a book is wrong, at least get its title right. "Origin of the Species"? Oh dear. One can only speculate as to the quality of the 'research' and the ' science ' his institute sponsors...
How will Darwin and Darwinism withstand such withering attacks from such highly respected academics and scientists?
"We can perhaps excuse Darwin, given his ignorance about the true complexity of living organisms and about genetics,"
I do not think Darwin was ignorant about the complexity of living organisms, although i dont know what their idea of true is yet.
http://www.logosresearchassociates.org /
"Logos Research Associates, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation in fellowship with Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, California"
Well, that sure looks like an unbiased, scientific research group! (There website also looks like it was constructed by a 13-year-old who just learned HTML)
I won't bother discussing why these people are morons. If you don't know by now, you are hopeless.
I'd be interested in reading their arguments. However, disproving evolution by no means lends any credit to creationism . The god of the gaps idea is logically flawed.