by Richard William Nelson | Mar 21, 2010
The consensus on the scientific validity of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection varies even between evolution scientists.
Richard Dawkins, perhaps the most famous advocate of evolution in the twenty-first century, explained that natural selection represents a “non-random survival of randomly varying hereditary instructions” in the article “The Illusion of Design,” published in the Natural History Magazine.
While Dawkin’s explanation of natural selection is widely popular, a consensus amongst evolution scientists remains a contentious issue.
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by Richard William Nelson | Jan 3, 2010
Michael Ruse, author of the book Defining Darwin, Essays of the History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology, concluded that “Indeed, the truth is that there is virtually nothing today in evolutionary studies that correspond exactly to the facts of the Origin.” Molecular clocks are one example.
In the mid-nineteenth century, the idea of molecular clocks was not even remotely considered, not to mention cellular biology or DNA. The scientific revolution had yet to reach into the realm of molecular biology. Case-in-point, Darwin thought “gemmules” learned by parents were passed on to the next generation through a process of “blending inheritance.”
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The consensus on the scientific validity of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection varies even between evolution scientists.
