Whatever Happened To Darwin's Tree Of Life?

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Throughout the 20th century, Darwin's picture of all organisms on Earth arising from a great Tree, with a single root, dominated biology. Within the past decade, however, a growing number of evolutionary biologists have announced that biology must "go beyond the doctrine of common descent" and that "the Tree of Life is dead." What discoveries motivate these claims? What are the consequences for the origins debate? In his talk, Dr. Nelson will review the genomic data fracturing the Tree of Life at its base, and what this means for the future of biology.

This video file is a 60 minute seminar by Paul Nelson that was recorded during the Seattle Creation Conference, October 2010.

About the Speaker:

Paul A. Nelson is a philosopher of biology who has been involved in the intelligent design debate internationally for over two decades. His grandfather, Byron C. Nelson (1893-1972), a theologian and author, was an influential mid-20th century dissenter from Darwinian evolution. After receiving his B.A. in philosophy with a minor in evolutionary biology from the University of Pittsburgh, Nelson entered the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. (1998) in the philosophy of biology and evolutionary theory.[1] He is currently a Fellow of the Discovery Institute and Adjunct Professor in the Master of Arts Program in Science & Religion at Biola University.

An early associate of Professor Phillip Johnson of UC-Berkeley, author of the bestselling critique Darwin on Trial, Nelson was an organizer of the Mere Creation conference (1996), where the modern intelligent design research community first formed. Nelson's research interests include the relationship between developmental biology and our knowledge of the history of life, the theory of intelligent design, and the interaction of science and theology. He lectures frequently at colleges and universities throughout the United States and Europe, has spoken on American and Italian national public radio, and written for popular publications as varied as the Oslo Dagbladet and the Christian Research Journal.

Nelson's scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as Biology & Philosophy, Zygon, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and Touchstone, and book chapters in the anthologies Mere Creation (Intervarsity Press), Signs of Intelligence (Brazos), Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics (MIT Press), and Darwin, Design, and Public Education (Michigan State University Press). His forthcoming monograph, On Common Descent, critically evaluates the theory of common descent. He is a member of the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) and the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB).
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[Postie218]

@tubewatch59 I read some of your other postings. They reminded me of the old saying, "if you can't convince them with the facts, at least you can wow them with your bull shit". LOL, your funny.

[tubewatch59]

@Postie218

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[Postie218]

@tubewatch59 You sure have the creationist jibber jabber down, that's for sure. Good for you, I guess. LOL. 

[tubewatch59]

@gregrutz

This guy is addressing the DNA tree of life, that doesn't show how all of life is related. Darwinism and "DNA tree of life"ism, is also a religion. It has to do with nature gods, but under another name - since no gods are supposed to exist in this worldview.

Whatever these "scientific" processes are, they are rather mysterious, because they do things that science has actually discovered they're unable to do. But evolutionists still believe in them anyway (because they must).

[gregrutz]

@Entropy56 Darwinism is a strict following of Darwin's ideas. His ideas are 150 years out of date and he was wrong about some things. I can understand you don't know shit about science but you should at least know what a relighion is, it has to do with gods.

[gregrutz]

Darwin's tree of life was replace by the newest evidence, the DNA tree of life. It shows how all life is related.

[NiceCraft]

my right ear is lonely

[Entropy56]

Darwinism = religion

[lethalsub]

@buffboynick Feeding us more straw man arguments retard.

[lethalsub]

@buffboynick So what about that retarded andrometard theory of star formation, dead and finished? more like aborted at embryonic stage. EPIC FAIL for such an advanced species.

Andrometards are scared of us because we can actually use our brains, well some of us can.