In the News

At the Zarinha Cultural Center, in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, Enezio E. de Almeida Filho will give an ID talk and have a debate. The event will take place on Oct. 21st at 7:30 p.m. The link above is in Portuguese.

In the World Peace Herald, Sekai Nippo reports on ID favorably in a five part series. All five parts can be accessed from the above link...and scrolling down the page.

PBS's Think Tank welcomed Dr. Stephen Meyer, director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture and author of Darwinism, Design and Public Education and Dr. Michael Ruse, Director of the Program in the Philosophy of the History of Science at Florida State University for a discussion on biological history, etc.

Wednesday, October 11th was a historic day in the life of the European Parliament.

Polish member of the European Parliament, Maciej Giertych, retired head of the Genetics Department of the Polish Academy of Science, and father of Polish Deputy Prime Minister, Roman Giertych, introduced a public seminar on the General Theory of Evolution to fellow MEP's.

Professor Giertych questioned the value of teaching a continually falsified hypothesis - macroevolution - to students throughout Europe, as well as pointing out its lack of usefulness in regard to scientific endeavour.

Professor Giertych introduced the subject by relating how his children had returned home from school having been taught about the theory of evolution. They were told that the proof of macroevolution - the common ancestry of biological life - was to be found in the science of genetics. This was news to Professor Giertych who had spent his life working at the highest level of genetic research. He revealed to the meeting that such proof does not exist in genetics, only disproof.

This was reinforced by the speech of Professor Emeritus Joseph Mastropaolo who had travelled from the USA to participate in the Brussels hearing. He explained that the biological sciences offer no empirical proof of macroevolution, just insurmountable problems. The theory of evolution consists merely of interpretational evidences which by their very nature could be interpreted in many different ways. He told the audience that the theory, after more than 150 years, still lacked any empirical proof.

Dr. Hans Zillmer, a German Palaeontologist and member of the New York Academy of Sciences, told the meeting that the fossil record holds no proof for evolution theory either. Instead of showing gradual change from one species to another, as is often claimed in the classroom, it actually reveals the stasis and stability of life forms.

Amongst those helping to organise the historic seminar were Dr. Dominique Tassot, Director of Centre d'Etude et de Prospectives sur la Science (C.E.P). C.E.P. is an organisation consisting of 700 French speaking scientists, intellectuals and representatives of other professions, all of whom oppose evolutionary theory on scientific grounds.

Evolution News & Views reports on the meeting of Jonathan Wells and Michael Shermer at the CATO Institute.

DNA World reports that Poland's deputy education minister called for the influential evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin not to be taught in the country's schools, branding them as lies in comments published on Saturday.

"The theory of evolution is a lie, an error that we have legalised as a common truth," Miroslaw Orzechowski, the deputy minister in the country's right-wing coalition government, was quoted as saying.

Colson noted that A Meaningful World is "about so much more than the narrow concept that many people have of 'intelligent design.' Their book's subtitle helps explain their idea - How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature. It's an original and utterly fascinating approach to the subject.

It available on ARN by clicking HERE.