“It looks like the math is not going to cooperate” with Darwinism, was the message the mathematicians and physicists delivered to their biologist colleagues. Paul Nelson recounts in a brief video released today, when precisely such a group got together at Wistar, there was a lot to argue about: Today marks the anniversary of the conference’s opening, April 25 in Philadelphia.Ĭertainly, so goes the cherished story, there would be nothing fundamental to debate about if you got together, say, a meeting of biologists, physicists, and mathematicians from MIT, Harvard, the University of Chicago, plus stellar scientific intellects like Nobel laureate Sir Peter Medawar, University of Paris mathematician Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, and others. According to their favored story, doubts about the evolutionary mechanism are the exclusive domain of, first of all, those seeking to uphold a particular interpretation of Genesis and, second, the scientifically ignorant. The 1966 Wistar Institute conference remains, fifty years later, a pain in the master narrative of Darwin advocates. Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print arroba Emailįor Darwin Advocates, Wistar Conference Remains a Pain in the Master Narrative David Klinghoffer ApIntelligent Design Published at Evolution News
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