Harvard Nobel Laureate Blinded By His **Belief** in Evolution
This retraction ( http://retractionwatch.com/2017/12/05/definitely-embarrassing-nobel-laureate-retracts-non-reproducible-paper-nature-journal/#more-52894 )is a big, big deal for a few reasons:
(i) the identity of the scientist who made the error and was forced to retract — Nobel Laureate and highly esteemed Harvard professor, Jack W. Szostak, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Professor of Genetics;
(ii) the publication from which the professor’s article was retracted — Nature Chemistry, a very prestigious scientific journal that went without any retractions for eight years; and, most importantly,
(iii) the reason for the error that caused the retraction — bias and blindness caused by the professor’s “belief” (his own word) in the atheistic theory of evolution, the idea that biological life on earth somehow “evolved”, randomly, on its own, over billions or hundreds of millions of years, with no oversight or input by a conscious, intelligent, powerful creator (i.e., God).
The theory of evolution is a nonsensical, unscientific, philosophical proposition that contains so many logical fallacies that it’s truly shocking, as well as shameful, that the political establishment of the scientific community has not put away this foolish fairy tale long ago. One of the absolutely insurmountable problems with the theory of evolution is the origin and development of early life, especially the very first cell.
DNA, RNA and proteins are the building blocks of biological life. Here’s the problem for proponents of the theory of evolution: these biological structures need each other to operate together in a complex system.
By analogy, it’s very much like any modern technological complex system that depends on the interplay of various components. A DVD is no good without a DVD player, for example. You need both the DVD and the DVD player to be able to play the DVD. And you also need a TV or computer screen. And you need wires or a wireless connection between the DVD player and the TV or computer screen. Without all these components working together, you can’t watch the movie. DNA, RNA and proteins are analogous. They also, together, form a complex system. They need each other to function and even survive. It is impossible for one to “evolve” without the others.
The good Harvard professor and Nobel Laureate thought he had found a solution to the origin of life problem: supposed self-replicating RNA (under just-so, perfect conditions, of course). But he got too excited. He allowed his bias and belief in the theory of evolution to blind him. He misinterpreted the data. And his supposed results could not be replicated — even by post-docs working under him in his own lab.
For some, inexplicable, irrational reason, many in our current society revolt against the idea of God. Even mentioning the Creator is socially unacceptable and politically incorrect to many. (I’m sure the Creator is quite amused by this nonsense.) Accordingly, the political establishment of the scientific community has gone to great lengths to make up and propagate a wildly imaginative, completely nonsensical, totally unscientific, fairy tale first proposed, in modern times, by Charles Darwin. If Darwin were alive today, based on his statements in his book, On the Origin of the Species, he would be ashamed of his disciples’ brazen lack of integrity in pushing this hopeless philosophical paradigm. Scientific evidence would have caused to Darwin to reject his own silly theory a long time ago.
It’s time for the scientific community to get real. It’s time for scientists to come clean. Actual scientific evidence points, undeniably (as Douglas Axe says) to intelligent design of complex systems by a power beyond our wildest dreams. Stop pretending “evolution” is a thing. Let go of your irrational commitment to a nonsensical fairy tale story.
