Re: (Tears) Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner

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Will faith based Baconian Scientism soon suffer a schism?

Darwinism's extreme improbability:

    Mathematical Challenges to Macroevolution

    Abstract

    The theory of evolution was advanced by Darwin in 1859, prior
    to Mendel’s experiments demonstrating the particulate nature
    of inheritance. The modern synthesis was formulated in the
    early 1940s, well before the concept of coded information
    was understood. This paper outlines four mathematical
    challenges to the modern synthesis, which are based on
    current understanding of the proposed mechanisms of
    evolutionary change within the constraints of experimental
    molecular biology.

    (10.4236/jamp.2022.1011224)

enlightens (so to speak) its religious nature:

    "Darwinism is no longer just a scientific theory but a basis
    of a worldview, and an emergency ... religion for the many
    troubled souls who need one." - Gelernter.

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Unlike the occult corners of Shakespeare and the reportedly virgin
"Faerie Queene" Elizabeth I, "New Atlantis" is openly acknowledged
as being begot by Bacon before his demise in 1621. This early
Science Fiction features a world ruled by ?mad? scientists.

Danke,

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