Well Said

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Coyne and Pigliucci tell us (again) that there is such overwhelming evidence for evolution. OK, put up or shut up. They don’t know what a species is, they don’t know what the target of selection is, they don’t know if natural selection is a queen or a jester, they don’t know what adaptive radiation is, they don’t know how speciation operates (the main reason for Darwin’s little storybook), and they can’t connect mutations to any actual benefit to an organism. Other than those little minor matters, evolution is so supported by such mountains of evidence that only a fool with an agenda could dare question it.

Colin Patterson of the British Natural History Museum once posed a question to his fellow evolutionary biologists: “Can you tell me anything about evolution, any one thing that is true?” He got a surprised silence. He told them, “I had been working on this stuff for twenty years, and there was not one thing I knew about it” (see ARN). Notice he asked if they knew anything – something they knew was true – not what they thought about it, what they guessed about it, what stories they could tell about it. Would that more evolutionary biologists would ask that question. All we see in paper after paper is competing guesses, modified models, controversies, debates, changing definitions, and the inevitable, “future research should be able to shed light on this question.” The articles above show that basic, fundamental tenets of Darwinism are no more nearer solution than they were to Darwin. What has increased is not their knowledge, but the sophistication of their ignorance. Then Pigliucci and Coyne pompously blast away about the “overwhelming evidence” for evolution and how stupid the creationists are. This is not good salesmanship.

Are you a good shopper? Of course you are. You’ve learned to check the specs, not the hype. When a salesman comes to you shouting, “Acme Widgets are superior to all the other garbage out there, and the testimonials are so globally unanimous, that only a complete idiot would even look at the competitor’s product, which is produced by evil, wicked, stupid ignoramuses who only want to make a buck out of your gullibility.” You know that you have to blow off the bluff of the chuff (chuff, n.: a boorish, proud, insensitive fellow) and look at what the product can do. Evolutionists dare not allow you to do that with their product because the competitor will always win hands down. That’s why they must have a monopoly in marketing. The special effects in the evolutionary ads require rigging and selective illumination to highlight the glow and keep other things in the dark. When you ask to see the goods, you get vaporware on back order.

Evolutionary biology today is a sad case of what happens with protectionism and totalitarianism in the marketplace of ideas. To get the good stuff you have to go to the black market, which is really the white market when the black light is turned off, the doors are opened and the sun shines in.