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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

Teachers who do inform students about some of Darwinism's unre-
solved problems often face persecution by what can only be termed
the Darwinian thought police. In Washington state, a well-respected
biology teacher who wanted to tell students about scientific debates
over things like Haeckel's embryos and the peppered moth was ul-
timately driven from his school district by local Darwinists…
A second development fueling recent gains by Darwin's critics has
been the demise of an old stereotype.

… The new critics of evolution hold doctorates in biology, biochem-
istry, mathematics, and related disciplines from secular universities,
and many of them teach or do research at American universities.
They are scientists like Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe,
University of Idaho microbiologist Scott Minnich, and Baylor
University philosopher and mathematician William Dembski.
The ranks of these academic critics of Darwin are growing. During
the past year, more than 150 scientists—including faculty and re-
searchers at such institutions as Yale, Princeton, MIT, and the
Smithsonian Institution—signed a statement expressing skepticism
of neo-Darwinism's central claim that "random mutation and nat-
ural selection account for the complexity of life."

Deprived of the stock response that all critics of Darwin must be
stupid fundamentalists, some of Darwin's public defenders have
taken a page from the playbook of power politics: If you can't dis-
miss your opponents, demonize them. 2
It appears that this rapid collapse of Darwinism in the United
States will continue in the years to come. Only a few decades from
now, perhaps, people will look back and wonder how such an empty

claim came to dominate the world of science in the twentieth century.
Mankind will then accept the truth which the Darwinists tried so hard
to conceal: that life and the entire universe are not the work of blind
natural forces, but of God, the Lord of infinite might and wisdom.

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