Question of Dr. Augustus Nicodemus Lopes: Why, despite all these discoveries of Science, the theory still prevails in the Academy that life had a spontaneous origin, if its complexity is clear ?
I believe, Augustus, It was because of a pact, a position we assumed 150 years ago. When Darwin proposed his theory, when he elaborated his arguments, the understanding we had about life was really, that simple, rudimentary, medieval, and obscurantist. We imagined that life, which a cell the basic unit of life was formed by a single substance, a protoplasm, something like a gelatin.
So imagine at that time that life could actually have come up in a soup, in that scorching broth of the primordial soup, was not really that hard.
Then arguments were worked out. And we then assumed a very clear position that life had arisen by natural processes.
And we have been defending this position for 150 years.
And everytime that data show us against this position, we dig our heels in more and more, more and more.
We came to a position of impasse, absolute impasse.
So today, we do not want to throw in the towel. And we do everything to not debate, we do not want to hear about Intelligent Design, we do not want to talk about Intelligent Design. We advertise as loudly as possible, because we have to stifle the data.
But in Science, nothing better in Science than one data after another, one data after another. And the flood, the avalanche of data today is talking much louder than the scientists. And the scientists, really, will have to come and face society and, with the humility that all of us must have, facing this society, say:
‘People! Unfortunately, we made mistakes. We made a conclusion based on incomplete, inaccurate data about life and the universe that natural forces would have the ability to create it.”
From the video Interview with Dr. Marcos Eberlin (part 2 of 2)
1st Interview of Augustus Nicodemus Gomes Lopes to Dr. Marcos N. Eberlin in the Academia em Debate program of the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie de São Paulo.
Youtube Channel: Marcos N. Eberlin
Posted: Jan 9 2012
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