Let's study ID: their view of natural selection (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 20:37 (11 days ago) @ David Turell

A false God:

https://evolutionnews.org/2024/12/natural-selection-the-god-that-failed/

"Darwinism is not just a science-stopper; it is also, as Oxford mathematician and philosopher John Lennox points out, guilty of itself adopting the god-of-the-gaps fallacy. In this case, the god is natural selection. Whenever materialism cannot come up with any empirically verifiable explanation, it invokes natural selection. Lennox cites Nobel laureate physicist Robert Laughlin:

"Much of present day biological knowledge is ideological. A key symptom of ideological thinking is the explanation that has no implications and cannot be tested. I call such logical dead ends anti-theories because they have exactly the opposite effect of real theories; they stop thinking rather than stimulate it. Evolution by natural selection, for instance, which Darwin conceived as a great theory, has lately come to function as an anti-theory called upon to cover up embarrassing experimental shortcomings and legitimize findings that are at best questionable and at worst not even wrong. Your protein defies the laws of mass action — evolution did it! Your complicated mess of chemical reactions turns into a chicken — evolution! The brain works on logical principles no computer can emulate? Evolution is the cause!"

Comment: natural selection is a worthless tautology.