Does the Darwinian theory require modification or replacement?

It surely seems some scientists are in fact challenging the modern synthesis.

taq writes: already read it. It is wrong. You don't get to present expert testimony even as a written affidavit. Even worse, you don't get to present your interpretation of the expert testimony as evidence. Expert witnesses have to present the data that supports their conclusion, and they have to be available for cross. That's how it works. That is how it worked in the famous Dover ID trial where ID advocates were not allowed to submit written affidavits. They had to be available for cross. You should know that.

shadow writes:In re the Expert. The evidence would be presented by the Expert under direct examination by Plaintiff's counsel and then cross examination by defendants's counsel
The data would be admitted by both the experts testimony and the admission of the papers into evidence.The jury, in some cases, may even take the actual papers with them to the jury consulation room where they reach their verdict.

shadow writes:
In re the Expert. The evidence would be presented by the Expert under direct examination by Plaintiff's counsel and then cross examination by defendants's counsel
The data would be admitted by both the experts testimony and the admission of the papers into evidence.The jury, in some cases, may even take the actual papers with them to the jury consulation room where they reach their verdict.

The Dover trial was a bench trial, i.e. before a judge with no jury. However both Plantiff's and Defendant's attorneys made closing arguments to the judge as to what they believed the evidence showed.

taq writes:What data does she cite that challenges the Luria and Delbruck's conclusions?

Wright writes:Transcriptional activation as a mechanism for increasing mutation rates was first proposed in 1971, by Brock (8) and Herman and Dworkin (38). Their work demonstrates that recA-independent lac reversion rates of frameshift and point mutations are higher when transcription is induced by isopropyl--D-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG), and that the effect is specific. More recently, specifically induced, transcription-enhanced mutations have also been shown for a lys frameshift mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (16, 74). Starvation-induced stringent response mutations in E. coli (62, 109-111) and Bacillus subtilis (90) occur as a result of transcriptional activation triggered by gene derepression, not induction. In this system, mutations arise during the transition between growth and stationary phase and they are recA independent, similar to the lac reversions mentioned above. This distinguishes them from prolonged stress-induced adaptive mutations (11) and from DNA damage-induced SOS mutagenesis (104), both of which require recA (and will not be discussed in this minireview). It is noteworthy that the experiments described above on the effects of artificially induced transcription on mutation rates in growing cells are all examples of specifically directed mutations. However, none of the researchers come to that conclusion or challenge the assumptions and implications inherent in the experiments of Luria and Delbruck (63), which reinforce neo-Darwinism.

praying for all on this board

theodoric writes: Please do not insult me by performing your voodoo of praying for me.
By doing that you imply there is something wrong with me that needs to be fixed. Nothing wrong, nothing needs to be fixed.

Theodoric writes: Please do not insult me by performing your voodoo of praying for me.By doing that you imply there is something wrong with me that needs to be fixed. Nothing wrong, nothing needs to be fixed.

I am glad that your are perfect, but, I guess I will pray that perhaps your attitude will change and you become a little more tolerant and forgiving of those who do not agree with you.

I don't think shadow71 meant anything like that. He just means to wish us well until he returns.

I will be gone from this board for a about a week but when I return I will try to reply to all messages.I will be at New Melleray – A Cistercian Abbeypraying for all on this board

jar writes:So Shadow is once again just blowing smoke?