BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH in the light without evolution
BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH in the light without evolution :
Evolution is beyond what is required or sufficient (not sufficient ,
superfluous ) for real biological research . We hear so many times from
those claiming and thinking ( falsely ) that biology and the study of
biology can only be understood in the light of evolutionary theory .
But this is not true and is a deliberate deception of the facts .
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Witham, Larry A. anti-creationist :
“Surprisingly, however, the most notable aspect of natural scientists
in assembly is how little they focus on evolution. Its day-to-day
irrelevance is a great ‘paradox’ in biology, according to a BioEssays
special issue on evolution in 2000. ‘While the great majority of
biologists would probably agree with Theodosius Dobzhansky’s dictum
that “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”,
most can conduct their work quite happily without particular reference
to evolutionary ideas”, the editor wrote. “Evolution would appear to
be the indispensable unifying idea and, at the same time, a highly
superflous one.” The annual programs of science conventions also tell
the story. When the zoologists met in 1995 (and changed their name to
the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology), just a few dozen
of the 400 academic papers read were on evolution. The North American
Paleontological Convention of 1996 featured 430 papers, but only a few
included the word ‘evolution’ in their titles. The 1998 AAS meeting
organised 150 scientific sessions, but just 5 focused on evolution—as it
relates to biotechnology, the classification of species, language,
race and primate families.”
Witham, Larry A., Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and
Evolutionists in America (hardcover), p. 43, Oxford University Press,
2002.
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