A Better Way to Reject Common Descent

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@jongarvey

My point on the dangers of genocentrism is made nicely in a video kindly posted by Paul Nelson at BioLogos , from Gerd Muller at the Royal Society Extended Synthesis symposium a while ago - he gave the introductory address. I don’t seem to be able to upload it here, so here’s a link to his post at BioLogos .

Here is what @pnelson wrote:

One more link, and then I must bow out of this discussion. For those who like listening to podcasts, this November 2016 talk in London by University of Vienna evolutionary biologist Gerd Muller is worth a listen:

Muller opened the three-day Royal Society symposium on the “extended evolutionary synthesis,” attended by several Discovery Institute fellows (Ann Gauger, Steve Meyer, me, and others) and also some BioLogos staffers (Jim Stump was there, as I recall). At about 8:55 in this talk, Muller draws a sharp distinction between what the Modern Synthesis (textbook neo-Darwinism) may explain, versus what it needs to explain, but doesn’t. Macroevolution – the origin, for instance, of animal body plans – is unexplained by current theory.

As I think we have covered many many times, the Modern Synthesis is not neo-Darwinism. That theory of evolution was falsified a long time ago. Remember our discussion on this?

@swamidass

The problem I have is not with the science, but with the self-serving pseudohistory that they construct about evolutionary science. I don’t disagree with the EES, but just think it is merely just modern “evolutionary science.”