Denis Noble: The Evidence That Neo-Darwinism Is Dead
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 116 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | If I'm right, there's a huge amount of biology still to be discovered. Processes well beyond what you'll find in the textbooks today. |
| 0:39.3 | The experimental facts are already clear. Neodarwinism is dead. |
| 0:49.1 | Does the claim that Neo-Darwinism is, quote-unquote, dead, overstate, accurately state, or |
| 0:55.5 | understate your position? Well, he more or less accurately states it, I think. The fact is that |
| 1:03.4 | there are four major foundations of the neo-Darwinist position, that DNA is a self-replicator, it isn't, that the |
| 1:14.5 | Weissan barrier protects the eggs and sperm from being affected by the body. |
| 1:19.8 | Well, it doesn't. |
| 1:20.9 | We've shown that information can travel from the body to the germ line. |
| 1:30.9 | And that the central dogma, as it's called, |
| 1:33.7 | which is that DNA is used to make proteins, |
| 1:36.8 | but proteins are never used to make DNA, |
| 1:48.1 | doesn't prevent organisms when they need to change their DNA. Now, those are the basic assumptions of the neo-Darminist view of modern biology, and I'm afraid they've all crumbled. It's as though |
| 1:54.7 | you've got the foundations of a subject, and they've gone. So, no, I don't apologize for using rather strong language. |
| 2:04.8 | I think as a theory, it is now dead. |
| 2:07.7 | By any criteria, if you show that the foundations are incorrect, |
| 2:12.9 | then the theory is not worthwhile. |
| 2:16.1 | Furthermore, the obvious test of it is the information you get from the |
| 2:24.0 | molecular processes like the DNA sequence and so on, which we can measure, is that really |
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