Re: Theory of Evolution difficult to define - Harshman

http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/berlinski_i_cant_believe_im_wasting_time_on_this_guy
"...One we should get out of way immediately is this "Darwin's theory"
nonsense. We are not dealing with "Darwin's theory" anymore, but a
much greater body of knowledge and concepts that has accumulated in
the past century and a half, which includes one huge revision (the
incorporation of genetics and population genetics) in the past, and
which is being constantly updated right now. It is absolutely idiotic
to criticize the modern study of life on the basis of one's
misunderstanding of a preliminary proposal published in 1859. But this
is the strategy that the IDiots have taken. It is insane...."

By the modern study of life Dr.Myers probably refers to the Neo-
Darwinian theory or Neo-Darwinism as it was called in the journals in
1982 by P.T. Saunders article "Is Neo-Darwinism falsifiable?" before
the materialists changed the label to Modern synthesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_evolutionary_synthesis#Tenets_of_the_modern_synthesis
"..According to the modern synthesis as established in the 1930s and
1940s, genetic variation in populations arises by chance through
mutation (this is now known to be sometimes caused by mistakes in DNA
replication) and recombination (exchange of genetic material between
homologous segments of DNA)..."

Notice the appeal to abstract authority "..according to the modern
sythesis...", no Mr.Modernsynthesis didn't accord anything, only an
individual could have accorded or established a theory. Wikipedia
tells us the theory was "established" but instead of telling us who
established it they appeal to abstract authority and tell us that
Mr.MS established it.

Would somebody tell us in what journal between 1930 and 1940 was a
theory established by an author that explained something we can't
even define: life ?

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