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The Darwin Delusion: But Old Mr. Dawin wasn't to Blame
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As Eugene Koonin (a well recognised expert in the field of evolutionary and computational biology), states in The Origin at 150: is a new evolutionary synthesis in sight? (2009): “The edifice of the Modern Synthesis has crumbled, apparently, beyond repair” (Koonin E.V. 2009) [1], and therefore, in order to explain why this is the case, I have researched and written this book in the hope that I can explain to non-specialists, like myself (I’m not an evolutionary biologist, but an archaeologist and independent researcher which gave me some tools to begin tackling such a deeply entrenched topic) how our modern synthesis got to this point of no return. Obviously, most Darwinists would not accept that their edifice is crumbling, but that is not because it isn’t: it is simply because there is so much invested in it. This publication is not written to denigrate anyone, and certainly does not blame Old Mr. Darwin, as the subtitle suggests, but instead it will attempt to redress the massive imbalance in this discussion, where only the Neo-Darwinian theory is ever heard within the public arena and treated as a scientific fact: and not the scientific objections or other empirically testable alternatives.
‘The Darwin Delusion: But Old Mr. Darwin wasn't to Blame’, is as the subtitle suggests, not an attack on Darwin, just a justifiably critical assessment of the entire Neo-Darwinian synthesis in a very short read and entirely backed up by our most recent science. I also give the historical backdrop (again sourced and supported) to why the Neo-Darwinian synthesis was never based upon the scientific approach in the first place. It's a conversation starter - a rational one free of ideological positions. I hope you enjoy.
Cheers MariaBrigit
As Eugene Koonin (a well recognised expert in the field of evolutionary and computational biology), states in The Origin at 150: is a new evolutionary synthesis in sight? (2009): “The edifice of the Modern Synthesis has crumbled, apparently, beyond repair” (Koonin E.V. 2009) [1], and therefore, in order to explain why this is the case, I have researched and written this book in the hope that I can explain to non-specialists, like myself (I’m not an evolutionary biologist, but an archaeologist and independent researcher which gave me some tools to begin tackling such a deeply entrenched topic) how our modern synthesis got to this point of no return. Obviously, most Darwinists would not accept that their edifice is crumbling, but that is not because it isn’t: it is simply because there is so much invested in it. This publication is not written to denigrate anyone, and certainly does not blame Old Mr. Darwin, as the subtitle suggests, but instead it will attempt to redress the massive imbalance in this discussion, where only the Neo-Darwinian theory is ever heard within the public arena and treated as a scientific fact: and not the scientific objections or other empirically testable alternatives.
‘The Darwin Delusion: But Old Mr. Darwin wasn't to Blame’, is as the subtitle suggests, not an attack on Darwin, just a justifiably critical assessment of the entire Neo-Darwinian synthesis in a very short read and entirely backed up by our most recent science. I also give the historical backdrop (again sourced and supported) to why the Neo-Darwinian synthesis was never based upon the scientific approach in the first place. It's a conversation starter - a rational one free of ideological positions. I hope you enjoy.
Cheers MariaBrigit
87 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 13, 2014
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Maria B. O'Hare
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Maria Brigit O’Hare is a freelance archaeologist /researcher presently living in Spiddal, Galway, Ireland, with her son and partner. In her spare-time, when she is not researching and writing about her passion - science, she regularly plays Irish Traditional music (concertina) in and around local pubs.
Maria was born and raised in Belfast from the mid-sixties, and after finally escaping from school at the grand age of just 16 without any qualifications, she spent the next 16 years in community arts and performing with various circus groups, until the opportunity finally arose, after building up the necessary entrance qualifications and learning to learn, for her to fulfill a life-long dream of going to university. She attended Queen’s in Belfast in the late nineteen-nineties, with a small child on-board and after receiving a first class honors in archaeology, she was then offered a place on a post-doctoral study course in the same subject, which she successfully completing and was awarded her doctoral degree in 2005.
All the while, Maria has been an avid researcher and has written about anything that seemed to matter or wrote sometimes just to keep sane. Now, all her research and writing experience has converged on a number of books relating to scientific alternatives to Darwinism and because of the controversial nature of the topic, learned how to publish books herself and teach others to do the same.
Maria Brigit O’Hare is a freelance archaeologist /researcher presently living in Spiddal, Galway, Ireland, with her son and partner. In her spare-time, when she is not researching and writing about her passion - science, she regularly plays Irish Traditional music (concertina) in and around local pubs.
Maria was born and raised in Belfast from the mid-sixties, and after finally escaping from school at the grand age of just 16 without any qualifications, she spent the next 16 years in community arts and performing with various circus groups, until the opportunity finally arose, after building up the necessary entrance qualifications and learning to learn, for her to fulfill a life-long dream of going to university. She attended Queen’s in Belfast in the late nineteen-nineties, with a small child on-board and after receiving a first class honors in archaeology, she was then offered a place on a post-doctoral study course in the same subject, which she successfully completing and was awarded her doctoral degree in 2005.
All the while, Maria has been an avid researcher and has written about anything that seemed to matter or wrote sometimes just to keep sane. Now, all her research and writing experience has converged on a number of books relating to scientific alternatives to Darwinism and because of the controversial nature of the topic, learned how to publish books herself and teach others to do the same.
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