That much-diminished meeting on rethinking evolution, remember, which couldn’t really come off, or not much anyway?
Some of us thought it would go the way of the firm that used to teach the peace sign to grizzly bears. But here it is again:
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New trends in evolutionary biology: biological, philosophical and social science perspectives
Monday 7 – Wednesday 9 November 2016, The Royal Society, London
Organised in partnership with the British Academy by Professor Denis Noble CBE FMedSci FRS, Professor Nancy Cartwright, Sir Patrick Bateson FRS, Professor John Dupré and Professor Kevin Laland
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So, are they going to uncork the bottle? At this point, it almost doesn’t matter whether they do or not. Acknowledging the questions that Darwinism does not answer is the biggest problem that the bureaucratic organization must get past. Acknowledging other possible solutions is second.
Hey, honesty could well amount to more jobs in the sciences. Why fight it?
See also: What the fossils told us in their own words
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What a relief… I’d thought that Larry Moran with some help from Jerry Coyne were going to cause enough mess to have this meet cancelled. I guess Larry is going to straighten everyone right in there. I’m contemplating to attend. It could be educational as well as entertaining…I just don’t know which option I like best…
l love it. The end result will be pure rubbish – just like the original theory – but it will provide great entertainment.
Just when you think Darwinists have reached the limits of lunacy in defending their secular religion, out pops another credentialed fool to raise the bar higher. The petulant, maniacal Lawrence Krauss set the lunacy bar to a very high level indeed, but I have faith that some other wild-eyed atheist will achieve even greater infamy.
J-Mac @1:
Get both! 🙂
Dean_from_Ohio @3:
Maybe they did! Who knows? 🙂
Truth Will Set You Free @2:
According to J-Mac @1 that show could be educational in addition to entertaining.
🙂
I think it would be worth while to attend just to hear Professor Denis Noble speak. From the few talks I’ve seen him give, he is not the least bit shy about debunking foundational precepts of Darwinian evolution.
,, In the preceding video, Dr Nobel states that around 1900 there was the integration of Mendelian (discrete) inheritance with evolutionary theory, and about the same time Weismann established what was called the Weismann barrier, which is the idea that germ cells and their genetic materials are not in anyway influenced by the organism itself or by the environment. And then about 40 years later, circa 1940, a variety of people, Julian Huxley, R.A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane, and Sewell Wright, put things together to call it ‘The Modern Synthesis’. So what exactly is the ‘The Modern Synthesis’? It is sometimes called neo-Darwinism, and it was popularized in the book by Richard Dawkins, ‘The Selfish Gene’ in 1976. It’s main assumptions are, first of all, is that it is a gene centered view of natural selection. The process of evolution can therefore be characterized entirely by what is happening to the genome. It would be a process in which there would be accumulation of random mutations, followed by selection. (Now an important point to make here is that if that process is genuinely random, then there is nothing that physiology, or physiologists, can say about that process. That is a very important point.) The second aspect of neo-Darwinism was the impossibility of acquired characteristics (mis-called “Larmarckism”). And there is a very important distinction in Dawkins’ book ‘The Selfish Gene’ between the replicator, that is the genes, and the vehicle that carries the replicator, that is the organism or phenotype. And of course that idea was not only buttressed and supported by the Weissman barrier idea, but later on by the ‘Central Dogma’ of molecular biology. Then Dr. Nobel pauses to emphasize his point and states “All these rules have been broken!”.
Professor Denis Noble is President of the International Union of Physiological Sciences.
Here is a more recent talk by Dr. Noble:
Here is the paper that accompanies the preceding video:
Of course, such evidence challenges the entire reductive materialistic framework that Darwinian evolution is built upon. And as such it is not just that Darwinian evolution needs to be extended or anything like that, like many leading Darwinists try to claim when faced with the evidence, it is that the entire reductive materialistic framework that Darwinian evolution rests upon needs to be jettisoned and replaced with a ‘information theoretic’ framework in which the integrated information of the entire organism runs the show and the material particulars are very much subsidiary to that holistic ‘information theoretic’ framework.
Is Professor Noble willing to push it that far at the upcoming meeting? Well, besides the videos I listed, he has given other hints elsewhere that he is indeed willing to go that far.
BA77 @7:
Well, too late now:
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Unfortunately, the meet is not going to feature Jerry Coyne-who apparent retired from who knows what, for reasons we all suspectEDDDDDD…
btw: Jerry; you will never beat me. you can’t. nobody can unless they can create or recreate life… you fail jerry… you always do…
Don’t try to beat me…
J-Mac@10
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Does this mean Susan Mazur may not get her next paradigm shift book out of it after all? That would be sad.
@11. It’s personal between me and Jerry Coyne. He banned me on his blog so I responded here knowing very well that he reads UD. Sorry that all of you are puzzled by my comment…
Regarding the Royal Society meeting coming up in November, I have recently bumped into an old friend of mine who called the Royal Society Meet “…a frantic attempt to place a dead theory on life support with the hopes of it being resurrected…again…”