In a message dated 10/15/2000 7:09:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, SE Jones
writes:
<< > This fall, there has appeared a scientifically authoritative book
casting
> grave doubt on the whole basis of these confident illustrations. Dr.
> Jonathan Wells, a molecular and cell biologist from the University of
> California at Berkeley who is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute,
> in
> his Icons of Evolution does more than cast doubt. >>
Speaking of icons....
Tell us Steve - have you read any of Wells' technical/original research? No?
Well, it is actually not that hard to find. And you could read all of it in
30 minutes or so. This 'molecular and cell biologist' - whom, by the way,
got his degree from Berekely then split but continues to use the affiliation
for obvious reasons - has published a whopping THREE scientific publications.
I guess he must be an expert on all aspects of evolution, what with such an
impressive scientific background. Of course, he also has a Ph.D. in some
aspect of religion, wherein his thesis was on how bad the teaching of
evolution is to the minds of youngsters.
Yeah, I'd hang my hat on his every word. Ad hom, right? Not really. In
addition to the rebuttals mentioned by others, wherein Wells tends to ...
shall we say, exaggerate a bit, it is hardly ad hominem to take the words of
one with a grain of salt who has in the past demonstrated a distinct lack of
expertise on the very area he writes about.
But I'm sure his book or pamphlet or whatever it is will be gobbled up by
folks like DNAunion....
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