Dr. David Berlinski: Institutional Constraints (Clip 11)

The producers of the critically-acclaimed documentary "Icons of Evolution" sat down for an interview with Dr. Berlinski. This is a clip from that interview.

David Berlinski was raised in New York City, educated at Columbia College and recieved his Ph.D in philosophy from Princeton University. He later became a Fellow of the Faculty in Mathematics and a Post Doctoral Fellow in molecular biology at Columbia University.

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[sherwoodstars]

The insitutional constraints are so strong that, according to Philip Skell, a now-retired science professor and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, any young biologist who questions old Darwinist doctrines is likely to be "railroaded" out of the academic community. There's a link on my blog to an audio interview in which Skell says exactly that. Follow the link on my channel profile to my blog. Skell warns young biologists not to publicly criticize Darwinism until they have tenure.

[ThrakhathOfKilrah]

You just completely failed to address the argument in the original post as well as my comments on spelling. That makes you pathetic.

Of all the lingusitic skills spelling is the least important - because messages still get across. The reason you do not understand this is because you do not speak any other languages than English. This is very unfortunate for you and puts severe limits on what you can understand about foreign cultures and people. This makes you ignorant.

[ttcmp0]

The problem here lies with politics and funding, not the theories of scientists.

[LovingKimiKatkar]

Today's atheistic Darwinists/evolutionists are the high priests of corporate science. They sermonize & pontificate, from lecterns & in clumsily-written tomes, on the "over-population" dilemma and the necessity of, foisting upon a stupefied populace, eugenic measures (sterilants & abortifacients) to curtail growth.

[baldurus1]

A lot of blinking and avoiding eye contact from Mr. Berlinski, it's like he knows he's being dishonest.

But that can't be, right?

[AwesomeSuperbaws]

Atheist's:: "Lets all hide behind Darwin"

^ Lol.

[JohnEdwardIAF]

@enoch1844

No, CRACKPOT scientist already claim that there was intelligent life on mars. It's not a mainstream view. In fact, those crackpots make the same sort of claims all psuedoscientists like cryptozoologists, ufologists, conspiracy theorists, and intelligent design-creationists make. They claim that NASA is withholding information, persecuting them, and that there are institutional constraints that prevent the "truth" from being revealed.

[gregrutz]

@toobsucker Funny how Darwin did not even know about DNA and yet he still showed how evolution happens.

[gregrutz]

@enoch1844 "Blind chance and lots of time."

Nice strawman argument. You, like Mr. Butinski, don't even understand evolution.

[gregrutz]

This crap brought to you by the Discovery Institue.

[enoch1844]

@JohnEdwardIAF Well, you haven't refuted anything here or made any comment relevant to the defense of evolution. Intelligent design IS a reasonable hypothesis. If the crawler on Mars had found an object that looked 50 or 60% like, say a butter knife, scientists would have shouted to the world that there is intelligent life outside earth. Yet they find that a simple, single cell organism is more complicated than NY City, with all it's systems, they say, "Blind chance and lots of time."

[JohnEdwardIAF]

@toobsucker Let me guess, it can only be explained in terms of "intelligent design" right? LOL, yeah right. In your god-fearing dreams. I'll read the article when I have time. Why don't you post your claims over at rationalskepticism(dot)org so they can dismantle it for you. See if it stands to scrutiny. Every time I hear of another presumptuous claim from the anti-evolution cult, it only takes a little research to debunk. But you guys just keep on coming back with more nonsense.