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Author Topic:   Why is evolution so controversial?
shadow71
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Message 122 of 969 (724107)
04-12-2014 4:33 PM
Reply to: Message 121 by Percy
04-12-2014 4:21 PM


Re: This is becoming tiresome
Percy writes:
Concerning your second claim that increasing numbers of scientists are abandoning evolution, you've been unable to provide any support whatsoever. All you've done is shown what we already knew, that creationists with scientific credentials exist. No one doubts that Henry Morris and Duane Gish and Steven Austin and Andrew Snelling are real people, but such people exist in no greater numbers than they ever did, and their writings appear in popular press books and at the websites of organizations like the Institute for Creation Research and the Creation Research Society, and not in scientific periodicals like the Journal of Geology or the Journal of Cell Biology.[
James A. Shapiro "evolution a view from the 21st century" is such a scientist who has written many peer reviewed papers and published the book cited above.
He states, inter alia, innovation not selection is the critical issue in evolutionary change.

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shadow71
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Message 128 of 969 (724115)
04-12-2014 7:43 PM
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04-12-2014 4:44 PM


Re: This is becoming tiresome
In a nutshell;
Shapiro denies random mutation and natural selection, and postulates natural genetic engineering. His findings confirm his theory that evolution is not random, that the genetic engineering of the cells is driven by sentient changes in answer to the environmental events that occur.
He is a the University of Chicago if you would like to review his c.v.

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