Thinkquote of the day: Darwinism as impossible?

A friend writes to say that P. Lemoine, a former director of the National Museum of Natural History of Paris, "is cited by Daniel Raffard de Brienne in his beautiful anti-evo book Pour en finir avec l’évolution , that I have read in the Italian version." Lemoine wrote, among other things:

The theories of evolution, with which our studious youth have been deceived, constitute actually a dogma that all the world continues to teach; but each, in his specialty, the zoologist or the botanist, ascertains that none of the explanations furnished is adequate . . It results from this summary, that the theory of evolution is impossible.—P. Lemoine, "Introduction: De L' Evolution?" Encyclopedie Francaise, Vol. 5 (1937), p. 6.

If he means mathematically impossible, that point was also made by mathematician M.-P. Schützenberger.

So the French are getting involved? At this point, we need to stop and recall that Darwinism and its ilk (the “theories of evolution”) function as the creation story of materialism. In that context, the fact that they require suspension of disbelief is no more or less remarkable than the fact that other philosophical systems’ creation stories require suspension of disbelief.

The problem we face today is that materialism and hence Darwinism has slowly become established as a religion of the Western elite, upheld by the courts and funded by the taxpayer. So disbelief becomes a form of disloyalty to the regime.

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If you like this blog, check out my book on the intelligent design controversy, By Design or by Chance?. You can read excerpts as well.

Are you looking for one of the following stories?

My review of Francis Collins’ book The Language of God , my backgrounder about peer review issues, or the evolutionary biologist’s opinion that all students friendly to intelligent design should be flunked.

Lists of theoretical and applied scientists who doubt Darwin and of academic ID publications.

My U of Toronto talk on why there is an intelligent design controversy, or my talk on media coverage of the controversy at the University of Minnesota.

A summary of tech guru George Gilder's arguments for ID and against Darwinism

A critical look at why March of the Penguins was thought to be an ID film.

A summary of recent opinion columns on the ID controversy

A summary of recent polls of US public opinion on the ID controversy

A summary of the Catholic Church's entry into the controversy, essentially on the side of ID.

O'Leary's intro to non-Darwinian agnostic philosopher David Stove’s critique of Darwinism.

An ID Timeline: The ID folk seem always to win when they lose.

Why origin of life is such a difficult problem.

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