Theory and Consensus articles focus on the theoretical consensus developments across the disciplines of science, as reported in the literature. While the theory of evolution is generalized thinking about the phenomenon, a consensus is a professionally defined explanation.
For the articles in this category, the writing style is scientific journalism featuring linked-references with linked-quotes from the investigators and experts in the field. My evaluation, based on the new evidence, is in the Genesis section.
A scientific consensus represents an agreement developed by field specialists even though the agreement may not be unanimous. As a result of new theoretical developments or further research, the consensus will eventually change – as the theory of evolution exemplifies.
While a consensus is not synonymous with “certain truth,” a consensus gives insight into the general opinions. A consensus provides a measure of confidence in an idea or theory. From healthcare to the environment, a consensus on antibiotics, vaccinations, and fluorinated water to climate change and evolution give public health officials guidance for the twenty-first century.
While healthcare organizations use consensus guidelines to benchmark the quality of care, more than eighteen scientific societies have developed a consensus on climate change, from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to the American Medical Association (AMA).
Even since the publication of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin in 1859, technological advances have dramatically forced changes in his theory. The professional, scientific organizations advocating the theory of evolution are obligated to develop a consensus on biological evolution.
With advances in biomolecular technologies in the late-twentieth-century consensus, however, competing ideas of evolution have emerged. Mutation and chromosomal changes once envisioned as driving evolution, are now known to drive biological dysfunction and extinction, not evolution.
Since the genomic revolution, a consensus on a comprehensive theory of evolution remains a minefield of competing ideas leaving the theory without any scientific consensus from any professional organization advocating evolution.
Theory Development and Consensus
To understand the dynamics of developing an evolutionary theory and consensus, select from the following menu –
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- Evolution’s Science Status
- Evolution 101 Common Ancestor
- Universe Shouldn’t Exist
- War Over Natural Selection
- Extinction, Darwin Wrong Again
- Oxygen, Evolution’s Achilles Heel
- Geographical Isolation
- Darwin’s Frog Faces Extinction
- Tenet of Darwin’s Theory
- Giraffe Evolution
- How the Giraffe Got Its Long Neck
- Origin of the Feather
- Sea Star Evolution
- Simple Scientific Theory?
- Natural Selection, No Natural Mechanism
- New Evolution Dilemma
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Refer to the Glossary for the definition of terms.
