The new theory will be even more ridiculous than the old one. But at least they realize that Darwinism cannot survive.Bye bye natural selection, hello self organization.
Hmmmmm!The new theory will be even more ridiculous than the old one. But at least they realize that Darwinism cannot survive.
Self-organization is like creation ex nihilo. Or it’s similar to the old “spontaneous generation” idea.
Even atheists are concerned that Dawkins and Dennett are playing the came of fundamentalists, making evolutionari theory seen incompatible with religion. It is not.David Sloan Wilson, biologist:
“Another example of the need to fight for the middle ground concerns the recent atheist attacks on religion by Dennett, Dawkins, Hitchens and others. In this case the problem is not a denial of natural selection but other departures from responsible scholarship to portray religion as bad, bad, bad in every respect. This includes not only poor scholarship with respect to theology, which Jack might appreciate given his comment about creationism, but extremely poor scholarship with respect to scientific understanding of religion, from an evolutionary or any other perspective. It doesn’t matter that these authors have distinguished reputations, any more than a creationist with a PhD. They need to be roundly criticized on the basis of their current effort. . . .
This is not repression. It is fighting to prevent responsible scholarship and scientific inquiry from becoming a carnival.”
Putting it more simply, this conference of various secular intellectuals was designed to help create a “new theory of evolution” because the old one cannot be defended.
From what I read, they weren’t very successful in coming up with a new theory, but they all agreed that Darwin’s ideas were refuted by new evidence from science (especially at the molecular level).
The conference itself is evidence that Darwinian evolution is a bankrupt theory – at least in the minds of these “superstar” academics.
But the fact that they exclude the possiblity that God’s role in the creation of the world is of essential importance to any theory that attempts to explain His creation, means that they’ll continue to come up with dead-ends.