Newman 'falou e disse': a educação de gerações poderá ser sacrificada para beneficiar a teoria morta de Darwin

terça-feira, fevereiro 09, 2010

ALÔ MEC/SEMTEC/PNLEM:

Em 1980 Stephen Jay Gould disse que o deodarwinismo, oops a Síntese Evolutiva Moderna era uma teoria científica morta que posava como ortodoxia somente nos livros didáticos de Biologia do ensino médio. São três décadas engabelando os estudantes, e sonegando informações científicas sobre o status epistêmico da teoria da evolução através da seleção natural. O nome disso é DESONESTIDADE ACADÊMICA com o aval do MEC.

Leiam o que Stuart A. Newman disse recentemente sobre o status epistêmico do Darwinismo:

"Unless the discourse around evolution is opened up to scientific perspectives beyond Darwinism, the education of generations to come is at risk of being sacrificed for the benefit of a dying theory."

[A menos que o discurso em torno da evolução seja aberto para perspectivas científicas além do darwinismo, a educação de gerações vindouras está a perigo de ser sacrificada em benefício de uma teoria moribunda.]

Três décadas não são três anos, nem três meses, tampouco três dias: são 30 anos!!! Alegar desconhecimento das insuficiências fundamentais da teoria da evolução através da seleção natural no contexto de justificação teórica, é descompasso com a verdade, pois a literatura especializada estava aí falando sobre o declínio da robustez do neodarwinismo como referencial teórico para explicar a origem e a evolução das coisas bióticas.

Vamos mudar o paradigma evolutivo? Aliás, vamos enterrar Darwin de vez???

MEC/SEMTEC/PNLEM: Estamos de olho!

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Evolution: The Public’s Problem, and the Scientists’

Stuart A. Newman

The fact that organic evolution occurred, and continues to occur, is as solid as any conclusion science has yet produced. To take issue with this, considering the interconnected biological, chemical, geological, and physical facts that enter into our knowledge of evolution, is to take issue with much of modern science. Significantly, though, many people throughout the world, particularly in the United States, continue to reject a naturalistic account of the origination of complex biological systems and the genesis of species.

Skepticism about evolution appears to be based more on received views influenced by religious belief than on the persuasive force of contemporary antievolution counter-narratives. Nonetheless, several current schools of thought seek to capitalize on inadequacies or flaws in various versions of the account of mainstream biology.1 ‘‘Young earth creationism,’’ for example, pointing to gaps in the fossil record, adheres closely to Biblical accounts of the genesis of the world and its life forms, holding that life was established on Earth around 6,000 years ago. The more recently established ‘‘Intelligent Design’’ movement, in contrast, accepts the age of the Earth as determined by science and even a role for evolution in molding many biological features (e.g., the overall structure of the bodies and appendages of insects, humans, and other many-celled organisms) but asserts that other, finer features, such as the microscopic beating whip on the surface of cells known as the flagellum, are ‘‘irreducibly complex’’ and can only have been generated by a ‘‘designer’’ located outside the frame of naturalistic thought.2

The take on this by the secular liberal mainstream is that it represents a rejection of rationalism. However, few contemporary religionists, even the most fundamentalist of them, question mechanistic and other naturalistic accounts of observable phenomena. This is clearly a departure from ancient cultures where animistic
explanations of things like fire and the weather were standard.
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   Stuart A. Newman, Ph.D.

  Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy

  Basic Science Building
  New York Medical College
  Valhalla, NY 10595
  (914) 594-4048 (T)
  (914) 594-4653 (F)
  newman@nymc.edu

The research interests of the Newman laboratory center around three main program areas: cellular and molecular mechanisms of vertebrate limb development, physical mechanisms of morphogenesis, and evolution of developmental mechanisms. Other areas of interest include protein structure-function relationships and the social and cultural aspects of biological research and technology. He is co-editor, with Gerd B. Müller, of Origination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology (MIT Press, 2003), with Santiago Schnell, Philip Maini and Timothy Newman of Multiscale Modeling of Developmental Systems (Elsevier, 2007) and co-author, with Gabor Forgacs, of Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Stuart Newman received an A.B. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, the Centre à l'Energie Atomique-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the University of Tokyo, and was a Fogarty Senior International Fellow at Monash University, Australia. He was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics, Cambridge, MA and is a Fellow of the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future, Chicago, IL.