{"id":1655,"date":"2008-03-05T08:34:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T08:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/05\/myers-musgrave-attacked-by-wel\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T08:34:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T08:34:24","slug":"myers-musgrave-attacked-by-wel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/myers-musgrave-attacked-by-wel\/","title":{"rendered":"Myers, Musgrave, Attacked by Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Wells has launched a nasty attack on <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2008\/03\/wells_says_something_stupid_ag.php\">PZ Myers<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2008\/03\/how-stupid-do-t.html\"> Ian Musgrave<\/a> on the discredited Discovery Institute web site.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Darwinist bloggers P. Z. Myers and Ian Musgrave hate me. In fact, Myers writes, &#8220;My animus for Jonathan Wells knows no bounds.&#8221;&#8230;The most recent outbursts by Myers and Musgrave were provoked by my February 29 blog on Evolution News &#038; Views, in which I predicted that Darwinists would try to take credit for a recent French discovery regarding antibiotic resistance. And indeed they did.In the course of claiming credit for Darwinism, Musgrave claims that I completely misrepresent evolution, molecular biology, genetics and history&#8230;.The main points in my original blog post were these:I. Darwinism provides no explanation for the origin of complex enzymes&#8230;II. Darwinism played no role in the current research. &#8230;So the researchers used artificial selection to good advantage. But artificial selection is not Darwinism. &#8230;The question remains whether our understanding of antibiotic resistance would owe anything to Darwinian theory even in the limited (and true) sense that selection operates in natural populations. &#8230;So I repeat the question with which I concluded my original blog post: &#8220;How, exactly, is Darwinian evolution essential to understanding and overcoming antibiotic resistance &#8212; as the Darwinists claim it is?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Wells has launched a nasty attack on PZ Myers and Ian Musgrave on the discredited Discovery Institute web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,151,162,156,180],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-qH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}