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==Evolution of the gaps as anti-theory==

==Evolution of the gaps as anti-theory==

John C. Lennox criticizes the partisans of [[Evolutionism]] for their ''"evolution did it"'' approach as intelectual laziness camouflaging the absence of evidential basis and lack of knowledge. He makes his point by refering to warnings by Nobel laureate physicist and expert on origin of life Robert Lughlin, who regards an '[[Fog displacement|explanation]]' that has no implication and that cannot be tested for a key [[symptom]] of [[ideology|ideological]] thinking.<ref name="LENNOX"/>{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"In England, Darwin, Huxley and their allies cooperated effectively to acquire leading positions in scientific community which they held for necessary to impose naturalism as an ideology of science"'' in [[T. H. Huxley|Establishing and Activities of the Club X]]|group=note}} Laughlin calls such logical dead ends ''anti-theories'', becasue they have exactly opposite effect of real [[theory|theories]]: they stop thinking rather than stimulate it.{{#tag:ref|The page on [[University of California, Berkeley]] contains sources criticising a liberally biased educational system as resembling to ''"a sanctuary for a narrow ideological segment of the spectrum of social and political ideas"'' that does not help students learn ''how'' to think, but rather teaches them ''what'' to think.|group=note}} He points out that the Darwinian Evolution by natural selection has come to function as such anti-theory, called upon to cover up embarassing experimental shortcomings and legitimize just-so stories that are at best questionable and at worst not even wrong. He states with irony that buzzword-involving claims such as ''"evolution did it!"'' and ''"evolution!"'' are loosely applied on phenomena like protein defying the laws of mass action and "complicated mess of chemical reactions turning into chicken," {{#tag:ref|For exploring overly simplistic views from this category, cf. External source: ''CBS News'' documentary ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJOQiyLFMNY&feature=youtu.be&t=715 60 Minutes Presents: B-Rex]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=60 Minutes Presents: B-Rex |chapter=How to build a dinosaur |publisher= CBS News |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJOQiyLFMNY&feature=youtu.be&t=715 |accessdate=May 30, 2015 |quote=And the stakes are high. If blood vessels can survive 80 million years, what about DNA? ... Jack Horner is sceptical that the full Dinosaur DNA sequence will ever be found. But that hasn't stopped him. He's come up with the whole new idea for his dream of making a dinosaur: The best way is just to use a modern dinosaur - the chicken. Because evolution works, birds are actually carrying ancestral DNA. Horner has written a book proposing a plan to mind that ancestral DNA as a way to reverse-engineer a chicken into what he calls a ''dino-chicken''.}}</ref>|group=note}} respectively; and ''"evolution is the cause"'' is misused as simplistic answer to question related to human brain operating on logical principles no computer can emulate.<ref name="Laughlin">{{cite book

John C. Lennox criticizes the partisans of [[Evolutionism]] for their ''"evolution did it"'' approach as intellectual laziness camouflaging the absence of evidential basis and lack of knowledge. He makes his point by referring to warnings by Nobel laureate physicist and expert on origin of life Robert Lughlin, who regards an '[[Fog displacement|explanation]]' that has no implication and that cannot be tested for a key [[symptom]] of [[ideology|ideological]] thinking.<ref name="LENNOX"/>{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"In England, Darwin, Huxley and their allies cooperated effectively to acquire leading positions in scientific community which they held for necessary to impose naturalism as an ideology of science"'' in [[T. H. Huxley|Establishing and Activities of the Club X]]|group=note}} Laughlin calls such logical dead ends ''anti-theories'', because they have exactly opposite effect of real [[theory|theories]]: they stop thinking rather than stimulate it.{{#tag:ref|The page on [[University of California, Berkeley]] contains sources criticising a liberally biased educational system as resembling to ''"a sanctuary for a narrow ideological segment of the spectrum of social and political ideas"'' that does not help students learn ''how'' to think, but rather teaches them ''what'' to think.|group=note}} He points out that the Darwinian Evolution by natural selection has come to function as such anti-theory, called upon to cover up embarrassing experimental shortcomings and legitimize just-so stories that are at best questionable and at worst not even wrong. He states with irony that buzzword-involving claims such as ''"evolution did it!"'' and ''"evolution!"'' are loosely applied on phenomena like protein defying the laws of mass action and "complicated mess of chemical reactions turning into chicken," {{#tag:ref|For exploring overly simplistic views from this category, cf. External source: ''CBS News'' documentary ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJOQiyLFMNY&feature=youtu.be&t=715 60 Minutes Presents: B-Rex]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=60 Minutes Presents: B-Rex |chapter=How to build a dinosaur |publisher= CBS News |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJOQiyLFMNY&feature=youtu.be&t=715 |accessdate=May 30, 2015 |quote=And the stakes are high. If blood vessels can survive 80 million years, what about DNA? ... Jack Horner is sceptical that the full Dinosaur DNA sequence will ever be found. But that hasn't stopped him. He's come up with the whole new idea for his dream of making a dinosaur: The best way is just to use a modern dinosaur - the chicken. Because evolution works, birds are actually carrying ancestral DNA. Horner has written a book proposing a plan to mind that ancestral DNA as a way to reverse-engineer a chicken into what he calls a ''dino-chicken''.}}</ref>|group=note}} respectively; and ''"evolution is the cause"'' is misused as simplistic answer to question related to human brain operating on logical principles no computer can emulate.<ref name="Laughlin">{{cite book

|author=Robert B. Laughlin

|author=Robert B. Laughlin

|title=A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down

|title=A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down

|quote=Your protein defies the laws of mass action - evolution did it! Your complicated mess of chemical reactions turns into a chicken - evolution! The human brain works on logical principles no computer can emulate? Evolution is the cause!}}</ref>  

|quote=Your protein defies the laws of mass action - evolution did it! Your complicated mess of chemical reactions turns into a chicken - evolution! The human brain works on logical principles no computer can emulate? Evolution is the cause!}}</ref>  

[[Malcolm Muggeridge]] mused that the so called theory of evolution will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future and posterity will feel astonished that so very flimsy and dubious claims could be accepted with the incredible credulity they implore.  

[[Malcolm Muggeridge]] mused that the so-called theory of evolution will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future and posterity will feel astonished that so very flimsy and dubious claims could be accepted with the incredible credulity they implore.  

Uncritical acceptance of 'evolution of the gaps' - idelogical thinking may lead to such state of intelectual laziness as one portrayed by Michael Egnor, professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at State University of New York, according to whom Darwinists have never asked scientifically whether random mutation and natural selection can generate the information content in living things.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism |publisher=Discovery Institute |url=http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org |accessdate=May 30, 2015}}</ref>

Uncritical acceptance of 'evolution of the gaps' - idelogical thinking may lead to such state of intellectual laziness as one portrayed by Michael Egnor, professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at State University of New York, according to whom Darwinists have never asked scientifically whether random mutation and natural selection can generate the information content in living things.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism |publisher=Discovery Institute |url=http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org |accessdate=May 30, 2015}}</ref>

==Typical examples==

==Typical examples==