Re: Darwin Was Wrong (Apparently)

On Feb 2, 8:08 am, "Steven L." <sdlit...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life
21 January 2009 by Graham Lawton
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Read our related editorial: Uprooting Darwin's tree

IN JULY 1837, Charles Darwin had a flash of inspiration. In his study
at his house in London, he turned to a new page in his red leather
notebook and wrote, "I think". Then he drew a spindly sketch of a
tree.

As far as we know, this was the first time Darwin toyed with the
concept of a "tree of life" to explain the evolutionary relationships
between different species. It was to prove a fruitful idea: by the
time he published On The Origin of Species 22 years later, Darwin's
spindly tree had grown into a mighty oak. The book contains numerous
references to the tree and its only diagram is of a branching
structure showing how one species can evolve into many.

All the research underway on horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a good
counterexample to the creationists' claim that mainstream scientists
"cling to Darwinism like a religion."  HGT is a major departure from
Darwin's original "tree of species," and yet as the evidence for HGT
keeps coming in, scientists are accepting that evidence.  

An admission that Darwin has been falsified, which exists in direct
contradiction to a staggering amount of books written recently that
say Darwin and his main claims remain verified by science.

Gould 2002 (his magnum opus) argues at great length that evolutionary
theory has the right to still be called Darwinian.

Jerry Coyne, in his new book (which just appeared on book shelves)
says the Darwinian vision of the Tree of Life is still valid.

You can't have it both ways. What is evidenced here is sharp
disagreement. But if Gould and Coyne are wrong then every book about
Darwin, which equates to a mountain, must be burned.

And the
scientists working on HGT have never claimed that they are being
"persecuted" or "blacklisted" by Darwin's defenders, just because they
have dared to assert that Darwin's original "tree of species" is a gross
oversimplification.

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Steven L.
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Since they are anti-Creationism-ID your point is silly.

Ray

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