Wistar Institute Conference; Happy 50th Birthday (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, April 28, 2016, 11:51 (3130 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: This famous conference 50 years ago featured the world's most famous mathematicians who told the Darwinists that mathematical attempts to prove Darwin only strongly suggested it was wrong:-http://www.evolutionnews.org/2016/04/for_darwin_advo102798.html-The mathematicians showed the extreme unlikelihood of chance coming up with all the innovations necessary for evolution from single cells to us. They did not show the unlikelihood of common descent. Creationists desperately try to lump the two theories together, as if the mathematicians have discredited the theory of evolution. They have not. They have discredited Darwin's theory concerning how evolution works. Such a distortion puts the creationists on a par with Dawkins, who desperately tries to lump natural selection (which is not random and which mathematicians acknowledge as the means by which some organisms survive and others don't) together with random mutations as if the one somehow vindicates the other. It does not. If you want to see the whole landscape, you don't put on blinkers.