Darwin obviously didn't have the benefit of the knowledge we have today. With that said, I think Francis Collins sums up well, how Darwin's basic theory has not only stood the test of time, but has been strengthened.
Karl Giberson: One of the things I appreciate a lot about Darrel Falk, who I think is a courageous voice in this conversation, is that he will come out and say that common ancestry is simply a fact. And that if youre not willing to concede that the genetic evidence points to common ancestry than youre essentially denying the field of biology the possibility of having facts at all. Thats the strong language that he uses.
Would you say that common ancestry and evolution in general is at that level? How compelling is the evidence at this point?
Francis Collins: The evidence is overwhelming. And it is becoming more and more robust down to the details almost by the day, especially because we have this ability now to use the study of DNA as a digital record of the way Darwins theory has played out over the course of long periods of time.
Darwin could hardly have imagined that there would turn out to be such strong proof of his theory because he didnt know about DNA - but we have that information. I would say we are as solid in claiming the truth of evolution as we are in claiming the truth of the germ theory. It is so profoundly well-documented in multiple different perspectives, all of which give you a consistent view with enormous explanatory power that make it the central core of biology. Trying to do biology without evolution would be like trying to do physics without mathematics
Yes, but like "evolution" itself this is just presumed as "fact", yet there is genetic research that also shows speciation itself is an arduous process; adaptations just touch the fringe of the genome, to change the core is not even near the same process. My rationale is evolution theory is insufficient to explain the genome base set, way way insufficient.
And speciation is nothing near the "evolution" of a new genus, much less a whole family, and so on, it is logically ridiculous and requires a mythical mindset to simply ignore the true complexity and layering of even the most basic genome, much less all of them in the "kingdom". Its like saying seemingly related nuts and bolts equate a lawn mower to a satellite as a spontaneous evolution. Its called fiction.
It is impossible that the whole thing started from one strand of DNA, unless their is a super-natural answer. It is impossible to have multiple "kingdoms", "domains", "phylums", "classes", "orders", "familes" based on mundane "evolution" as taught today. Even genus transformation is impossible without GMO (not even now) or "God".
But species variation is what even Darwin concluded that his understanding was minuscule, and for good reason, it is just the fringe of the genome.
"Adaptation" alone never will create a new entire genus of a species, much less a class or order, it is too deep in the DNA design, it had to be there from the beginning in a set of "kinds" not understood whatsoever today but what is recorded in Genesis as a basic framework.
Thus this is like saying Freud has given us insights greatly backed by neuroscience. In fact Freud had an incomplete understanding of the brain, and many of his "theories" are not present in brain function in the manner he speculated, such as in speech and writing "centers" in the brain. Freud was a hack, nothing more, with all due respect, a dated dolt exposed by later science as much a fraud as modern "Psychiatry" and its whole warped history.
So in this speculation I am saying Darwin is as applicable to modern genetics as Freud is to modern neuroscience. In reality there is no, little or totally erred "connection". Anything from the 1800s is of course just musings of hackers of the time, even earlier Newton was greatly updated by Einstein, but the end result of the truth of physics was forever altered away from the Newtonian model.
But physicists admit it now, because it is becomes impossible to support myths with hard sceince, unlike "evolutionists" who have no hard science because it is a myth they still try to support in spite of genetic research that is now toppling the whole "phylum class order family genus species" classification system as an archaic guess at best. The WHOLE model is being called into question by the real architecture of DNA and the real sub-structures of the genome.
The genetic model does not support the whole "kingdom, domain" model, in important ways it contradicts it, in the core DNA of all species. In time the whole model would need to be greatly updated, as severe as what befell Newtonian physics. In fact the whole model will probably be scrapped in time.
Just as Newton described gravity, it did not apply as thought to the quantum worlds. And the same thing with Darwin, his ideas do not actually correspond to the true origin of core genome variation.
This is why truly advanced genetic and genome understanding and "the evolutionists" will increasingly conflict as the evolutionists are taken apart by the real story of DNA and the genome engine.
By real hard science, evolution "understood" today has to go the way of Newton, but true genomic reality is what will plow them over by undisputable principles of how the genome "engine" actually works, it is an "onion" of complexity, in "strand" form.
Origin of "Species" is not the same as the origin of the whole "kingdom", not close, and THAT is all Darwin was trying to describe a theory of: speciation. It took evolution fantasists to try to extend this to the whole phylum class order family genus reality, which is of course simply impossible without an external cause, even at the origin. Hence GMO, is the only way man can try to make "evolution" work, and that is artificial and limited.
They distort Darwin, to try to establish their own mythical fantasy that never has been subjected to hard empirical science, but to creative writers like Dawkins, but now it is being subjected to the real science of the genome set.
In time science proves the only answer is a "God", hence why in resisting the answer, they have come upon it, it is now the only way to bridge the genome gap in modern evolution theory. It is not a "missing link" it is an entire missing matrix of MILES of genomic prototypes, PLURAL. There is no such thing as a "missing link".
It is all accepted myth by academic backing of the delusion, merely name dropping "Darwin" to give it credibility, by mostly lazy tenured loafers who are not going to take a bite out of their own paycheck, science itself will have to replace them with the more realistic model, but in time because it doesn't quite work.
Unlike the science that replaced Newton, the genetic science took more time to prove "on paper" to demonstrate the true magnitude of the "magic" that "evolution" assumptions require to actually "work".
Modern evolutionists are now simply totally bypassing HUGE GENOMIC REQUIREMENTS, by use of mythology and fuzzy fantasies. Unfortunate for the old school "evolutionist" their bad DNA of the basis of their fantasy is now being literally unraveled in the hard lab, not in their mental fantasies, by the true layering and complexity of the global genome set. They had to keep learning, rather than eating pie at the student union the rest of their stalled lives, or they could understand the basic problems the genome complexity and architecture now lays bare: the require a miracle to make evolution work in the coming days.
In reality, science develops to the point to prove God's existence as the only answer, and the answer to their folly of try to disprove his existence. Darwin was not an atheist.
The funny thing is evolutionists simply never evolve with their own backing sciences, because the genome is toppling their assumptions, just as the atomic sciences toppled certain Newtonian overextensions made by others in the following two centuries of the waves of dolts and wannabees that finally, FINALLY led to Einstein.
To continue to just accept the evolution myth as it stands today, one has to continue to devolve intellectually and actually ignore what the genome matrix is saying as it is being reverse engineered. The evolutionists of today are like the physicists and doctors of the 1800s to early 1900s after Newton, in time Einstein turned them on their ear, and the real genomic model will do the same thing to "modern evolution", it will prove its total fantastic impossibilities.
There has to have been a "genome matrix" base set to as the "origin", and it has to be affected by intelligent energy beyond just the confines of the Milky Way. In time the genome will speak for itself, evolution will go extinct in the process. It simply never has worked well for a number of reasons, the scientific ones are what will bring on its coming "ice age", it is a dinosaur of thought.
