(2017-10-20, 06:57 PM)Michael Larkin Wrote: Yeah. Over at Evolution News, there are many articles about how Darwinians, when all else fails, can call on convergent evolution to save their bacon -- see for example here.
I quote: The same data that are considered evidence of convergence can become evidence for common ancestry when you switch positions in the tree, and vice versa. What most evolutionary biologists have exorcised from their mind is that such incongruences (homoplasies) per se are not evidence for evolution as some evolutionists boldly proclaim (Wells 2017) but, instead, prima facie conflicting evidence against it (Hunter 2017).
Convergence, which Lee Spetner has called “even more implausible than evolution itself” (Klinghoffer 2017), and other incongruent similarities have to be explained away with ad hoc hypotheses. In past decades, convergence morphed from an inconvenient exception to the rule — to a ubiquitous phenomenon, found virtually everywhere in living nature. In his book Life’s Solution, paleontologist
Quote: Conway Morris (2003) felt compelled to declare it a kind of necessary natural law. It thus cannot really be considered a success story for the Darwinian paradigm.
"Lee Spetner is a physicist and Creation apologist. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.[1] He was educated at MIT and Washington University, and employed by Johns Hopkins University. Lee Spetner majored in physics. He endeavoured to prove God's creation using physics. Dr. Spetner is a convinced Jewish scientist with regard to such evidences. He opposes evolutionists who support Darwinism. He wrote numerous articles and emails to support his view.[2][3][4]"
If only he could find God.