«Somos escépticos acerca de las afirmaciones que sostienen que las mutaciones aleatorias y la selección natural puedan explicar la complejidad de la vida.»
«Las nuevas evidencias científicas descubiertas en las décadas recientes en disciplinas tales como la cosmología, la física, la biología, la investigación de la “inteligencia artificial” y otras, han impulsado a los científicos a cuestionar la selección natural, el principio fundamental del darwinismo, y a estudiar la evidencia que la sustenta de manera más detallada.
Sin embargo, los programas de televisión, las declaraciones de política educativa, y los libros de texto de ciencia afirman que la teoría darwinista de la evolución explica acabadamente la complejidad de los seres vivos. Además, se le ha asegurado al público que toda la evidencia conocida respalda al darwinismo y que prácticamente todos los científicos en el mundo creen en la veracidad de la misma.
Los científicos que se encuentran en esta lista impugnan la primera afirmación y se presentan como un testimonio viviente en contra de la segunda. Desde que el Instituto Discovery lanzó esta lista en el año 2001, cientos de científicos se han ofrecido valientemente para firmar el documento.
La lista está creciendo y actualmente incluye a científicos de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de EE.UU., las Academias Nacionales de Rusia, Hungría, y Checoslovaquia, como así también de universidades tales como Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, y otras.
Una disensión científica sobre el darwinismo «Somos escépticos acerca de las afirmaciones de que las mutaciones aleatorias y la selección natural puedan explicar la complejidad de la vida. Debe fomentarse un cuidadoso examen de la evidencia en favor de la teoría darwinista.»
Lista de los 99 primeros firmantes
(ordenada alfabéticamente):
- Paul Ashby – Ph.D. Chemistry, Harvard University
- James Barham – Ph.D. History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
- Jonathan Bartlett – M.S. Computer Science, Oklahoma State University
- John Baumgardner – Ph.D. Geophysics and Space Physics, UCLA
- Robert W. Bass – Ph.D. Mathematics (also: Rhodes Scholar; Post-Doc at Princeton), Johns Hopkins University
- Günter Bechly – Ph.D. Paleontology, University of Tübingen
- Michael J. Behe – Professor of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University
- Lev Beloussov – Prof. of Embryology, Honorary Prof., Moscow State University; Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
- Raymond G. Bohlin – Ph.D. Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas at Dallas
- John Bloom – Ph.D. Physics, Cornell University
- Richard Bliss – Ed.D. Science Education, University of Sarasota
- Begona M. Bradham – Ph.D. Molecular Biology, University of South Carolina
- Walter L. Bradley – Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Baylor University
- Ernest L. Brannon – Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Research Professor (Ph.D. Fisheries), University of Idaho
- Eugene Buff – Ph.D. Genetics, Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Russell Carlson – Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Georgia
- David Chapman* – Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Paul Chien – Ph.D. Biology, University of California, Irvine
- David A. Cook – Ph.D. Physics, University of Virginia
- David DeWitt – Ph.D. Neuroscience, Case Western Reserve University
- William A. Dembski – Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Chicago; Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Hans Degens – Reader in Muscle Physiology, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
- Michael Denton – M.D., Ph.D. Human Genetics, King’s College London
- Robert DiSilvestro – Ph.D. Biochemistry, Texas A&M University
- Robert H. Eckel – M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado
- Marcos N. Eberlin – Professor, The State University of Campinas (Brazil); Member, Brazilian Academy of Science
- Donald Ewert – Ph.D. Microbiology, University of Georgia
- Denis Fesenko – Junior Research Fellow, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
- David W. Forslund – Ph.D. Astrophysics, Princeton University; Fellow of American Physical Society
- Thomas D. Gillespie – Research Professor Emeritus, Transportation Research Institute, University of Michigan
- Ann Gauger – Ph.D. Biology, University of Washington
- Guillermo Gonzalez – Ph.D. Astronomy, University of Washington
- William S. Harris – Ph.D. Nutritional Biochemistry, University of Minnesota
- Israel Hanukoglu – Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chairman, The College of Judea and Samaria (Israel)
- Daniel W. Heinze – Ph.D. Geophysics (also: Post-Doc Fellow, Carnegie Inst. of Washington), Texas A&M University
- John Hey – Associate Clinical Prof. (also: Fellow, American Geriatrics Society), Dept. of Family Medicine, Univ. of Mississippi
- Lyle H. Jensen* – Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Biological Structure & Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Washington; Fellow AAAS
- Ferenc Jeszenszky – Former Head of the Center of Research Groups, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Dean Kenyon – Emeritus Professor of Biology, San Francisco State University
- Alan Linton – Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology, University of Bristol (UK)
- Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig – Senior Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (Germany)
- Bruno Lemaire – Professor, Decision Science & Information Systems (Ph.D. Mathematics), HEC Paris (France)
- Jed Macosko – Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
- Joseph M. Marra – Director, Interventional Radiology, & Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
- Andy McIntosh – Ph.D. Combustion Theory, Leeds University (UK)
- Brian Miller – Ph.D. Physics, Duke University
- Scott Minnich – Ph.D. Microbiology, Iowa State University
- M.M. Ninan – Former President, Hindustan Academy of Science, Bangalore University (India)
- K. Mosto Onuoha – Shell Professor of Geology & Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Univ. of Nigeria; Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
- Ken Pascoe – Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology
- Emil Palecek – Prof. of Molecular Biology, Masaryk University; Leading Scientist, Inst. of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
- Fuz Rana – Ph.D. Chemistry, Ohio University
- Philip Skell* – Emeritus, Evan Pugh Prof. of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University; Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Stanley Salthe – Emeritus Professor, Biological Sciences, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
- Henry Schaefer – Director, Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia
- Christopher Scurlock – Ph.D. Chemistry, Arizona State University
- James Shapiro – Ph.D. Genetics, University of Chicago
- Giuseppe Sermonti – Professor of Genetics, Ret. (Editor, Rivista di Biologia/Biology Forum), University of Perugia (Italy)
- Thomas D. Thaxton – Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Georgia
- Richard von Sternberg – Ph.D. Biology, Florida International University
- Jonathan Wells – Ph.D. Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
- Christopher Williams – Ph.D. Biochemistry, Ohio State University
- Gordon Wilson – Ph.D. Environmental Science, George Mason University
- J. Mitch Wolff – Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Wright State University
- John Worraker – Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, University of Bristol (UK)
- Alexander Yankovsky – Assistant Professor of Physical Oceanography, Nova Southeastern University
- Patrick Young – Ph.D. Chemistry, Ohio University
- David Zartman – Ph.D. Genetics & Animal Breeding, Ohio State University
- John C. Zink – Former Assistant Professor of Engineering, University of Oklahoma
Bibliografía
Consultar el texto original: Una Disensión Científica sobre el Darwinismo.
Si quieres consultar la lista original con sus más de 1.000 firmantes (actualizada a mayo de 2023) clica aquí: A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism.