Over at Dembski & Co., there are some recent posts (here, here, and here) complaining about molecular clocks and arguing that well known and long established limitations of molecular clocks invalidate evolutionary biology.
Dembskiと仲間たちのブログで、分子時計に文句を言って、よく知られていて、限界もわかっている分子時計が進化生物学を無効にすると論じるポストが連発している。
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話の始めはdoi:10.1016/j.tree.2006.11.013
Opinion
Dates from the molecular clock: how wrong can we be?
Mário J.F. Pulquérioa, and Richard A. Nicholsa
Large discrepancies have been found in dates of evolutionary events obtained using the molecular clock. Twofold differences have been reported between the dates estimated from molecular data and those from the fossil record; furthermore, different molecular methods can give dates that differ 20-fold. New software attempts to incorporate appropriate allowances for this uncertainty into the calculation of the accuracy of date estimates. Here, we propose that these innovations represent welcome progress towards obtaining reliable dates from the molecular clock, but warn that they are currently unproven, given that the causes and pattern of the discrepancies are the subject of ongoing research. This research implies that many previous studies, even some of those using recently developed methods, might have placed too much confidence in their date estimates, and their conclusions might need to be revised.
これに対して、インテリジェントデザイン理論家Dr. William Dembskiと仲間たちのブログUncommon Descentは喜びまくって：
http://www.uncommondescent.com/archives/1860
The Sound of a Molecular Clock Exploding
by DaveScot on December 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Dates from the molecular clock: how wrong can we be?
by Mario Pulquérioa and Richard Nichols, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of London
http://www.uncommondescent.com/archives/1859
Molecular Clocks: Michael Denton continues to be vindicated
by scordova on December 14th, 2006 · 19 Comments
Back in 1985 Denton wrote of the Molecular Clock Hypothesis which was concocted by Schlemiel Zuckerkandl:
…the idea of uniform rates of evolution [molecular clocks] is presented in the literature as if it were an empirical discovery. The hold of every evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea [molecular clocks] which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious twentieth-century scientific theory has become a reality for evolutionary biologists…the biological community seems content to offer explanations which are no more than apologetic tautologies.
Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985)
Well this principle of “medieval astrology” used by evolutionary biologists continues to come apart.
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「年代測定は間違っている」と毎度主張する"若い地球の創造論"のノリになっている...