Richard Leakey, son of famed “Lucy” finders Louis and Mary Leakey, told a New York gathering.
Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist expects scientific discoveries will have accelerated to the point that “even the skeptics can accept it.” ( – “Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history” –MSNBC.com, May 26, 2012)
But that’s just the trouble, of course. There is no shortage of discoveries, but they are pointing in all different directions.
Just glancing briefly at some recent UD News posts,
If turtles are closer to birds than to lizards and snakes, genetically, then …
A pluralistic model of heredity is now emerging
Convergent evolution: Tooth enamel of vertebrates and crayfish (?!)
And that hardly begins to tell the story. One wonders, is there anything specific that one should believe? Or is the idea that we should just believe whatever our betters choose to roll down the pike at us?
Note: The colourful Leakey’s team discovered “Turkana boy” in 1984-86.
Then why are they trying to stifle academic freedom now? We’ll keep talking about the problems with their darwinian myth, and they can keep pretending it’s a fact until that magical discovery is made. I won’t hold my breath though.
But until then, we’ll just have to take it by faith I guess.
And the trend of the discoveries will have to change direction as most of the current discoveries support ID and creationism quite nicely.
of note:
F/N: Saw this at yahoo/AP, then noticed UD News on the ball. AP has a very significant take:
What this brings most forcibly to mind is Philip Johnson’s rebuke to such atheism wearing the holy lab coat and announcing the triumph of “science.”
Namely:
Somehow, that part never makes it into the news, nor does the issue that evolution as change over time does not translate into answers to the origin of major body plans in the teeth of evidence that the only empirically observed and analytically well warranted explanation for the sort of functionally specific complex organisation and information as we see in text in blog posts, or a car driving down the road, and the very similar info in the living cell, is design.
And, not even universal common decent would suffice to overturn that.
KF
The discoverer of Lucy was Donald Johanson.