Just a tip: Newsweek is not generally considered a good source for scientific information
Duh....no kidding Jan. Newsweek is a weekly news magazine and reports on news worthy items...like maybe the science of evolution isn't everything it's cracked up to be.
Your source seems to be creationist writings. I suggest you go and check up a bit about what real scientists do.
Sadly, any opposition to evolution on scientific grounds is rarely heard. Any scientist who rejects evolution tends to be branded as a religious fanatic, or similar. The media either ignores them or discredits them by disparagement.
One of the biggest scientific movements founded to try to give 'equal weighting' to pure scientific and natural evidence contrary to evolution is 'The Evolution Protest Movement', founded in England in 1932 by Sir Ambrose Fleming, M.A., D.S.c., F.R.S., (Physicist). Past President of the Victoria Institute and Philosophical Society of Great Britain, Fleming also invented the thermionic valve, which gave us the high quality radio-broadcasting we have today. Members of this institute must, at the very least, possess a Masters Degree in a scientific discipline. There are over seven hundred members in Britain.
Previous 'Giants' of science who rejected evolution:
Sir Ernst Chain, F.R.S., Nobel Prize winner for penicillin.
Louis Vialleton, who was Professor of Zoology, Anatomy and Comparative Physiology at Montpelier University, France.
Professor Louis Bounore, former President of Biological Society of Strasbourg and Director of the Zoological Museum; became Director of Research at the National Centre of Scientific Research in France. Bonoure wrote: " Evolution is a fairytale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless."
Dr. Paul Lemoine, Past president of the Geological Society of France, and Director of the Museum d'Histoire; an editor of the French Encyclopedia.
Professor W.R.Thompson, F.R.S. For thirty years, Director of the (worldwide) Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Ottawa, Canada; a biologist of such eminence that he was invited to write a preface to the centenary edition of Darwin's "Origin of Species." His preface demolished Darwinism gently but completely; but, such was his international status, the preface was published with the centenary edition.
Sir Ambrose Fleming, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., (Physicist) - past President of the Victoria Institute and Philosophical Society of Great Britain.
Professor Albert Fleishman, Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Earlangen University, Germany. He stated :"The Darwinian theory of descent has not a single fact to confirm it in the realm of nature. It is not the result of scientific research but purely the product of imagination."
Professor H. Nilsson, Genetics, Lund University; a Swedish scientist of world standing.
Michael Faraday, Physicist - one of the greatest research scientists of Modern Physics. Faraday was responsible for the massive research into electromagnetism and the earth's magnetic field.
James Joule, Physicist - another outstanding figure of Modern Science. Joule's research into mechanisms of energy transfer established many common fundamental laws of physics.
Professor Thomas Barnes, Physicist - world renowned researcher into the earth's magnetic field and author of several textbooks on the subject.
At the end of the day, like religion and politics, this is a subject that will continually bring out various opinions....each one impossible to totally prove correct.
