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39 pages of results. 31. Darwin's Unfalsifiable Theory [Journals] [Kronos]
... still strikes me today, as a glaring error in Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Incidentally, in talking about "the theory of evolution" it is important to maintain the distinction between the general theory of evolution - the theory that evolution took place and Darwin's theory as to how it took place - natural selection. Admittedly, Darwin, himself constantly blurs the distinction between these two theories in The Origin of Species. In any event, my quarrel here is with the theory as to how evolution occurred. Darwin observed that there is a range of variation in the members of a species. Since organisms live in an environment, thought of as a niche into which ...
32. Mutations And New Species. Ch.15 Cataclysmic Evolution (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... characteristics unobserved in its ancestors. Although De Vries claimed that these mutations amount to what may be called "little species," they have not caused the primrose to pass beyond the frontier of its species. However, it was demonstrated that variations within a species do appear in a spontaneous manner, and rather suddenly, and not, as Darwin thought, by minute progressions from generation to generation. Huxley was correct in urging Darwin not to adhere so dogmatically to his belief that nature does not make jumps-natura non facit saltum.1 De Vries showed that variations are in the nature of jumps, and from this he developed the mutation theory of evolution. De Vries, while working ...
33. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Evolution (henceforward CNE) reviews a vast range of literature. Palmer demonstrates that there has been a trend away from Darwin's evolutionary hypothesis towards the actual evidence, leading to widespread (but as yet uncoordinated and undirected) doubts regarding the validity of many aspects of gradualistic evolution. However, natural selection rather than gradualism is the true hallmark of Darwinism. After he had proposed variation by adaptation as the means by which species can attain an ever-widening spread of characteristics, Darwin invoked natural selection to explain two well-attested and established phenomena - extinction and diversity. Palaeontological evidence of the extinction of vast numbers of species was explained by Darwin as their failure to compete with surviving species. This idea ...
34. Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution [Journals] [Aeon]
... Evolution by Michael J. Behe (The Free Press, New York, 1996) Reviewed by Frederic Jueneman There have been innumerable problems with the Darwinian evolution scenario over the past century and a half- give or take a few years- dilemmas which are usually swept aside by the pedagogues and other true believers who champion his cause. Charles Darwin himself recognized these difficulties, but anticipated that further proofs would be forthcoming as more information became available. Hope springs eternal. In more recent years we've been entertained by many persuasively prolific and resourceful writers, such as biologist Richard Dawkins of Oxford, Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard, and cognitive spe-cialist Daniel Dennett of Tufts University, all of ...
35. Evolution, Darwinism, Popper, and Fort - Again (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. IX No. 1 (Fall 1983) Home | Issue Contents Vox Populi Evolution, Darwinism, Popper, and Fort - Again To the Editor of KRONOS: KRONOS VII:4 contained a number of discussions of steady, or gradual versus catastrophic and implicitly instant evolution. While what was said, particularly about the researches of Nilsson, was of considerable interest, there are some matters that - on one or the other side of the debate or dispute - have been omitted. I shall try to cover these as briefly as seems reasonable. In nature, there exists a phenomenon called mimicry. There are some remarkable and perfect examples of it in ...
36. Alternatives in Science: The Secular Creationism of Heribert Nilsson [Journals] [Kronos]
... exist. There are reasonable alternatives in science that the establishment never acknowledges. The increasing popularity of Biblical creationism as championed by the flourishing Institute for Creation Research is a significant phenomenon of the past decade (e .g . Morris and Rohrer 1981). The ICR has done good service in publicizing the scientific case against the academic orthodoxy of Darwinism. But it would be unwise for the world to accept what is urged by the followers of both Darwin and Moses that this Biblically inspired "scientific creationism" (e .g . Morris 1974) is the sole alternative to the reigning academic orthodoxy. The evolutionary establishment has always made good use of the argument that there is only ...
37. In Passing: EVOLUTIONARY THEORY [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Polytechnic, and is Life Sciences consultant for the Review. These are exciting times for those interested in evolution, for neo-Darwinism, which has held sway without challenge for most of this century, is now being attacked and subjected to proposed modifications from all quarters. However, before we continue, let us be clear about a few points. Darwinism is the name given to the theory that evolution proceeds by natural selection: a population consists of individual members who possess, to a greater or lesser extent, characteristics different from each other, so if the available resources (e .g . food) are limited, only those individuals best suited to the environment will survive and produce ...
... From "Mankind in Amnesia" © 1982 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents Karl Marx's Misapprehension Jacques Barzun tells how Marx "wished to dedicate a portion of Das Kapital to the author of the Origin of Species. Darwin declined the honor..."[27] In offering to dedicate to Darwin a part of his Kapital- the battle cry for the liberation of the "unfit" from exploitation by the "fit"- Marx was pursuing some unclear thinking. By refusing the offer, Darwin was the more logical of the two. The teaching of Darwin in a sense sanctified the exploitation of the less fit by the better fit- that is ...
39. Karl Popper and Evolutionary Theory (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... straight-forward and needs no comment (although I might add that nature doesn't always bother with Ockham's razor!). For the second, testing is done by predicting previously unobserved phenomena. The third, although seemingly trite, is also necessary since it allows us to winnow the chaff of a theory from the seed. Evolutionary theory, not just Darwinism, fails the second requirement because evolutionary change is an historical process. Popper notes that: "There exists no law of evolution, only the historical fact that plants and animals change, or more precisely, that they have changed. The idea of a law which determines the direction and the character of evolution is a typical nineteenth-century mistake ...
... after one or two generations, the descendants of the same stock will habitually place the most implicit confidence in man. There is good reason, however, to suspect that such changes are not without analogy in a state of nature ; or, to speak more correctly, in situations where man has not interfered. AVe learn from Mr. Darwin, that in the Galapagos archipelago, placed directly under the equator, and nearly 600 miles west of the American continent, all the terrestrial birds, as the finches, doves, hawks, and others, are so tame, that they may be killed with a switch. One day, says this author, "a mocking bird ...
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