I have only just heard about this, and it's old news.
Not sure how I missed it:
A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism
From a very good video I just watched, apparently a number of scientists were duped into signing this document, and later asked to have their names removed from it.
It's clearly a ploy by creationists.
I'd like to hear what others have learned about this.
There is great doubt about the obsessive teleology that many use in the name of Darwin that he theory does not justify.
"What Darwin Got Wrong: is a great book that Darwin would probably have approved of, since Darwinism has been used as a vehicle to replace creationism by some who over cook the pudding of natural selection and pose evolution as a causal agent when in fact it is a EFFECT, not a cause.
I'd recommend it to anyone who finds many nature programmes tend to interpret Darwin wrongly.
Troubling to me. There seems to be a huge amount of the end justifies the means thinking in their camp.
I was privy to a situation which was telling about that thought process, yet would have been funny if it weren't so sad
The activity involved a group of men who were trying to use Zen like techniques to overcome some of their issues. During their meetings,they used meditation and some chants to "clear their minds, whatever.
One of these guys discussed this with a x-tian woman I know, and later she bragged to me (how I came to be aware, btw) that she'd coached him in a x-tian prayer, spoken in Hebrew, he'd gotten them to use it, in place of the zen ones.
I was speechless over the duplicity, the stupidity of such a charade. I mean, wouldn't "omnipotent gawd" know their intent, regardless of their words? And this from a person who was otherwise silent, if she couldn't be honest!
From what I can find, quite a few of the names are the result of deceit and being mislead. Apparently many other names have questionable or nonexistent credentials. That's probably why you are only just hearing about it now. It was too phony to get any real traction.