Nebraska Furniture Mart delivered our new sofa bed this morning. We are all set for visitors! Lorena claims it is very comfortable. I look forward to testing that myself.
Day: April 25, 2016
I have always been a skeptic when it comes to neo-Darwinism’s molecules to man fairytale. I found a very interesting article titled Wistar and DNA Day: A Fifty-Year Fuse Under Neo-Darwinism that describes a meeting that took place fifty years ago called the Wistar Institute conference on “Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution.” The article and two accompanying videos describe the issues much better than I could, but in a nutshell, a bunch of highly qualified physics and engineering professors from elite universities decided they would take a look at neo-Darwinism to see if it passed muster with respect to the math. They invited their colleagues from the Biology departments.
The proceedings of the event appear to be available for free if you do a search for “PDF” along with the title of the conference. My understanding is that the actually papers that came out of the conference were interesting, but the discussion recorded in the proceedings are even more so. To suggest that the discussions between the biologists and the engineers/physicists was vigorous might be understating the acrimony between the two groups. There are two videos in the article. I just post one here that gives a sense for what this is all about, but both of them are worth a look:
The article also points to another article titled Intelligent Design Aside, from Templeton Foundation to the Royal Society, Darwinism Is Under Siege about an upcoming conference in a similar vein to the Wistar conference. Neither of these conferences engage at all with Intelligent Design, just the inadequacy of the current thinking among proponents of neo-Darwinism.