Neo-Darwinian

Over the last forty years, the Neo-Darwinian school has increasingly found itself under attack from both scientists and non-scientists alike, especially over the idea that its proposed engine can account for all life.

Crossroads 2009

I believe that this was Gould's view, which he tempered somewhat to mollify the intensely adaptationist viewpoint taken by the Neo-Darwinian "mainstream".

Ancient Predator Revealed! 2009

So the defining event of the decade for this school was undoubtedly the publication of biochemist Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box (1996), which challenged Neo-Darwinian theories about the emergence of what everyone acknowledged as extremely complex structures and systems.

Crossroads 2009

Rather than sticking with the reasonable statement, "But [the Neo-Darwinian school] does maintain that any structure or system can, in a finite number of steps of finite probability, be reached from any other, or from some predecessor common to them both," he had to throw in some absurd straw man.

Crossroads 2009

Serious trouble for Neo-Darwinian theory was brewing on other fronts as well.

Crossroads 2009

As most regarded the latter as the worse of the two alternatives, they tended to close ranks around the Neo-Darwinian theory, despite its admitted problems.

Crossroads 2009

Such doubts were recently raised by a number of mathematicians and engineers at an international symposium entitled “Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution”, a meeting which also included many leading evolutionary biologists.

Blast From the Past 2010

Given the idea that every event is subject to divine influence — an influence that Whitehead calls an "initial aim" — the Neo-Darwinian doctrine that evolution is entirely undirected is rejected, along with the claim that macroevolution is fully understandable in terms of random variations and natural selection. (p. 27)

David Ray Griffin: IDist 2009

I think Ken Miller has argued rather persuasively that one can be a Theist and believe that God has used a Neo-Darwinian process to bring about all the different forms of life.

David Ray Griffin: IDist 2009

In case the reader has any doubt about whether this is done, we may draw attention to remarks of German biologist Dieter Walossek, commenting on the fact that key fossils crucial to the Neo-Darwinian explanation of life were not found in Pre-Cambrian rock formations in a major Chinese discovery: It doesn't matter if you find it [the missing fossil record] or not! ...

Crossroads 2009