Criticism of Darwin's theoryIun Anastasiia

Leontyev Ruslan

• No one has yet witnessed, in the fossil record, in real life, or in computer life, the exact transitional moments when natural selection pumps its complexity up to the next level. There is a suspicious barrier in the vicinity of species that either holds back this critical change or removes it from our sight.

I. L. Cohen

On the Origin of Species

• November 24 – 153 years since publishing On the Origin of Species

Evolution

• Change through time– Generations– Within individual – development

• Natural selection, genetic flow, mutations cause evolution– Common ancestry

History of criticism

• Scopes Monkey Trial (1920s, Tennessee, USA)• July 10, 1925, Bethlehem Globe “Evolution

trial opened by prayer; Judge has a Bible”• July 21, 1925, fined $100

History of criticism• Post-Scopes Monkey Trial• July 25, 2010, state Louisiana, Livingston

Parish News "Creation science genesis -- School system looks into teaching anti-evolution”

• June 2012, South Korea is excluding evolution from high-school textbooks

• June 2012, USA, school in Kansas – debate over evolution

Acceptance of evolution,

2005

The USA:2005, 40% true2009, 35% true

Why is it criticized?• Charles Darwin lived in 19th

century – huge difference between bourgeois and poor people

• Theory supports capitalistic interests because of natural selection

• The theory allowed to use nature laws to build society with unequal classes

Why is it criticized?

• Nature as a system is too complex to be apprehended by a single theory.

• Something that evolution theory doesn’t

cover is analogy within different types of species.

• Fibonacci number

Geometric analogy

Gemology vs. analogy

• Gemology – similarity in form and function between different species that share common ancestor.

Examples of gemology

Analogy – similarity between species that do not share common ancestors or similarities between live and non-

living substance

Examples of analogy

• If to examine self-organization of minerals and other non-living materials on atomic level we can understand that analogy equals to gemology that is all living organisms share common ancestors that belong to non-living materials.

• Once we understand physic-chemical processes that drive creation of forms curious analogy within species and minerals becomes Gemology rather than Analogy.

• If the selection is a matter of choice than why some patterns are excessively repeated?

Complexity of created forms does not necessary involve DNA, but instead

involves physical and chemical interaction of atoms

• Some none-living materials are capable of growth into complex self-organization structures without involving any DNA, instead the information on structure is recorded on atomic level.