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November 2011

At last, a Darwinist mathematician tells the truth about evolution

For some time, I’ve been looking for a way of communicating to Darwinists, in their own language, just how problematic the whole idea of neo-Darwinian evolution is. A couple of months ago, I had the good fortune to listen to a talk posted on Youtube, entitled, Life as Evolving Software. The talk was given by Professor Gregory Chaitin, a world-famous mathematician and computer scientist, at PPGC UFRGS (Portal do Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Computacao da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.Mestrado), in Brazil, on 2 May 2011. I was profoundly impressed by Professor Chaitin’s talk, because he was very honest and up-front about the mathematical shortcomings of the theory of evolution in its current form. As a mathematician who Read More ›