Foundering Rocks, Part IV

Publish or Perish

Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority.  There is no publication in the scientific literature--in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books--that describes how molecular evolution of any real, complex, biochemical system either did occur or even might have occurred.  There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations.  Since no one knows molecular evolution by direct experience, and since there is no authority on which to base claims of knowledge, it can truly be said that--like the contention that the Eagles will win the Super Bowl this year--the assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.

"Publish or perish" is a proverb that academicians take seriously.  If you do not publish your work for the rest of the community to evaluate, then you have no business in academia (and if you don't already have tenure, you will be banished).  But the saying can be applied to theories as well.  If a theory claims to be able to explain some phenomenon but does not generate even an attempt at explanation, then it should be banished.  Despite comparing sequences and mathematical modeling, molecular evolution has never addressed the question of how complex structures came to be.  In effect, the theory of Darwinian molecular evolution has not published, and so it should perish.[Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, 10th edition (New York: Free Press, {1996}, 2006), p.185f.]