The keyword is "legitimate". I mean scientists who are respected by the ENTIRE scientific community, not just someone who dons a lab coat and calls himself a scientist.
2007-06-20 05:37:05 · 25 answers · asked by Craig R 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ANSWER: This question was posed last week with respect to creation scientists. There are three problems:
1) Evolutionists define a legitimate scientist as one who believes in evolution, so by their definition no creation scientist is legitimate. This makes the original question disingenuous.
2) No scientist can be shown to have the support of the ENTIRE scientific community. We can't even agree on what a "scientist" is. Therefore by definition NO scientists opinion is supported by 100% of the scientific community. So the correct answer to the question , regardless of if you're looking at creationists or evolutionists is "no". There's not an evolutionist in the list of answers that is honest enough to say that.
3) Watch out when scientists all agree. Before every major breakthrough in science there are 99.999% arguing for the status quo and one guy championing some new theory.
The fact that a large number of people agree on something doesn't make it true. We should stop the insults.
2007-06-21 02:31:26 · update #1
LOL....funniest question of the day. Love to see what these evolution idiots say.
2007-06-20 05:42:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
Creationists in the United States claim that because there is a significant lack of public support for evolution, that public schools should "teach the controversy". Nearly every scientific society, representing hundreds of thousands of scientists, has issued official statements disputing this claim and a petition supporting the teaching of evolution was endorsed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners.
The vast majority of the scientific community and academia supports evolutionary theory as the only explanation that can fully explain observations in the fields of biology, paleontology, anthropology, and others. One 1987 estimate found that more than 99.84% of almost 500,000 US scientists in the earth and life sciences supported evolution over creation science. An expert in the evolution-creationism controversy, professor and author Brian Alters, states that "99.9 percent of scientists accept evolution".
The above statements were taken from Wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_support_for_evolution
The citations and references supporting these statements can be found on that Wiki-page. There is a lot more info there too.
As for my personal experience, I have Bachelors degrees in Biology and Physics. I have been in the classes of many professors who had impeccable scientific credentials. Absolutely NONE of them doubted the basic premises of the theory of evolution.
2007-06-20 12:50:31 · answer #2 · answered by Azure Z 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is this a serious question?
Evolution is scientific theory just like anything else for all the uses of the term thrown around of "scientific fact" in the science community a theory IS a fact such as gravity. So while naturally you're allowed to be skeptical and believe what you like, I'm not sure you'll find any real scientists that don't believe in evolution.
2007-06-20 12:42:25 · answer #3 · answered by Nick M 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Then I guess there are no legitimate scientists who have the ENTIRE support of the scientific community who believe in Creationism. I've yet to meet any scientists who did, at least ones that don't have their credentials from religion colleges.
2007-06-20 12:47:47 · answer #4 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here's a few of the most prominent evolutionary biologists culled from wikipedia. they didn't recieve their Ph.D.s by mail from the university of the P.O. box. like most creation 'scientists'. look 'em up and check them out.
Charles Darwin
James Crow
Richard D. Alexander
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Niles Eldredge
R.A. Fisher
J.B.S. Haldane
Ernst Haeckel
W.D. "Bill" Hamilton
Daniel Janzen
Motoo Kimura
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Richard Levins
Richard Lewontin
Gustave Malécot
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
Ernst Mayr
George and Elizabeth Peckham
John Maynard Smith
Robert Trivers
Alfred Russel Wallace
August Weismann
George C. Williams
Allan Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson
Sewall Wright
Carl Woese
2007-06-20 13:08:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Last I checked all scientist are respectable in the scientific community until determined otherwise. The people that you need to check with their references on the someones donning lab coats talking about creationists myth.
2007-06-20 12:50:39 · answer #6 · answered by calmlikeatimebomb 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Did you mean to say "scientists who believe in creation"?
It is clear, and proven, that all species have evolved at some point during earth's history, including us.
Some species of insects, and crocodiles, for example, achieved near perfection, and have remained largely unchanged for millions of years.
For the rest of us, evolution continues...
2007-06-20 12:50:52 · answer #7 · answered by Suzi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, all of them. There are some non-legitimate scientists who don't support evolution, but they either have an agenda or are controlled.
2007-06-20 13:01:37 · answer #8 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like member of the NAS or The Royal Society? 90+%
In fact there are only one or two biologists that do not.
2007-06-20 12:40:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
You must be joking! There is hardly one RESPECTED scientist that doesn't support the TOH. Including several Nobel Prize winners.
2007-06-20 12:41:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yeah, there's tons. And many of those scientists who support the theory of evolution also believe in God.
2007-06-20 12:39:54 · answer #11 · answered by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋