Friends regard Michael Lynch of the Arizona State U’s Biodesign Institute as one of the most thoughtful evolutionary biologists currently in the field. He’s putting chapters of his new book, “The Origins of Cellular Architecture,” online free here:
We have taken on one of the last uncharted fields in evolution: integrating evolutionary biology with cell biology. This sequel to The Origins of Genome Architecture brings evolutionary theory to bear on a diversity of observations on the functional and structural features of cells.
Surprisingly, the details of many cellular traits seem not to be simple products of natural selection, and in some cases can only be explained by an ability of selection to universally make certain kinds of refinements. The chapters provided are freely available for use in evolutionary cell biology courses as well as for more general subject review. The Origins of Cellular Architecture” (draft)
From the opening of Chapter 1: “…a pervasive problem in biology is the religious adherence to the idea that natural selection is solely responsible for every feature of biological diversity.
Inspired by this way of thinking and digging no deeper, many molecular biologists start with the dubious assumption that natural selection is the only mechanism of evolution at the cellular level, often asserting that even the most blatantly deleterious features of organisms must actually have hidden favorable effects.”
Thoughtful readers could correspond with him. There’s a lot of information out there to discuss.
This is my hometown! Good to see since the expulsion of Krauss
From: https://biodesign.asu.edu/sites/default/files/new_centers/Origin-of-Cells.pdf
“Unfortunately, the cumulative effects of nearly four billion years of chemistry, physics, and geology have erased all traces of precellular life.”
Oh, but they still believe it anyway!
“Precellular life”? There is absolutely no evidence that there ever was such a thing (he just said so) – except in the befuddled evolutionists’ imagination, traditionally the wildest imagination on earth. The whole enterprise of claiming life evolved is a farce if that sentence is true! But never mind. Darwinians are never slowed down by logic. They steamroll right on over it.
“As a consequence, we will probably never be able to trace with certainty the earliest steps in the emergence of life from an inorganic world.”
But don’t let that stop you from believing and swearing on your granny’s grave that it did happen, no evidence required. That is the very nature of Darwinism – no evidence required – imagination, speculation, conjecture and gratuitous extrapolation suffice. Darwinian “arguments” are the mother of all Gap arguments. The whole Darwinian edifice is built on circular reasoning, but don’t let the laws of logic stop them from blind faith belief! The completely incompetent Darwinian “logicians” have ignored the rules of logic since the start.
You cannot beat blind faith evolutionists for never grasping the meaning of the word “empirical”. It is not in their limited vocabulary. No need for that old baloney. Just imagine a light sensitive spot, just imagine this and just imagine that, … and then go in leaps and bounds over millions of unobservable, untestable years of imaginary mutations and VOILÀ! All +/- 8 million perfectly adaptable and ridiculously complex and functional life forms magically arrive.
Indeed, “I believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science. When this happens, many people will pose the question: How did this ever happen?”
– Dr Soren Lovtrup, PhD Embryology, Anthropologist, Biochemist, Historian, Embryologist. “Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth” 1987, p422.
And yet Lovtrup himself could not bring himself to deny evolution. Go figure. Logic, empirical evidence, common sense, … all go out the window as soon as “evolution” raises its ugly head.
Evolutionists have no explanation for the laws of physics, mathematics and origin of life. They cannot show a single time that macro-evolution has been witnessed and replicated, both of which are required to move from hypothesis to theory. They are socialists believing it can work, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
As to:
MIchael Lynch is alluding to the fact that Natural Selection, via the mathematics of population genetics, is now known to be extremely limited, to non-existent, in its ability to fix mutations in a population.
In short,
The irony in Lynch pointing out the ‘religious adherence’ that many Darwinists have to Natural Selection is that Lynch himself has a ‘religious adherence’ to Evolution being true beforehand. That Natural Selection can be, for all intents and purposes, tossed to the wayside, and yet Lynch himself still unquestionably accepts Evolution as being true, is proof in and of itself that Lynch is not objectively questioning whether Evolution may be true or not, but that he is instead religiously committed to Evolution being true beforehand no matter what the evidence may say to the contrary.
A few notes:
@2 Borne:
Hello Borne. You have an excellent blog, very insightful and funny.
I found it googling ‘naturalism is non-sense’.
I have shared some parts of it here at UD.
People, please, take a look! 🙂
https://borne.wordpress.com/
@2 Borne:
So this person knows that this ‘precellular life’ existed and got erased although there is no proof?
Am I smelling poor reasoning here?
Are we to infer from this that Lynch is claiming that natural selection plays no role in evolution or just that it is no longer regarded as the primary engine?
And it might be worthwhile emphasizing, for those who may still be confused about the issue, that evolution is a theory in biology. It offers an explanation of how life on Earth has changed and diversified over time. It was never intended to say anything about the origin of the universe or physical laws.