Truth in Science

A seminar critical of the theory that all life has a common ancestor was held for Members of the European Parliament on Wednesday October 11th, Truth in Science has learned.
 
Polish MEP, Maciej Giertych, former head of the Genetics Department of the Polish Academy of Science introduced the seminar to fellow MEPs in Brussels. He claimed that universal common ancestry is a falsified hypothesis and lacks usefulness in scientific research. He questioned the value of teaching it to students throughout Europe.
 

Professor Giertych related how his children (one of whom is now Deputy Prime Minister of Poland) had returned home from school having been taught about the theory of evolution. They were told that the proof of the common ancestry of biological life was to be found in the science of genetics. Professor Giertych, who had spent his life working in this field at the highest level, replied that such proof does not exist in genetics, only disproof.
 
This was backed up by Professor Emeritus Joseph Mastropaolo who gave a lecture explaining that the biological sciences offer no empirical proof of macroevolution, just insurmountable problems.
 
Dr. Hans Zillmer told the meeting that the fossil record holds no proof for evolution theory either. Instead of showing gradual change from one species to another, as is often claimed in the classroom, it actually reveals the stasis and stability of life forms.
 
Finally, Dr. Guy Berthault spoke to the audience about the results of his empirical research programmes concerning the deposition of sediments. He said that his research, published in journals of the National Academy of Sciences in France, Russia and China, appears to show that continuous depositions of water-borne sediments can sort themselves mechanically, simple changes in flow velocity causing rapid formation of strata.
 
Amongst those helping to organise the seminar was Dr. Dominique Tassot, Director of Centre d'Etude et de Prospectives sur la Science, an organisation of 700 French-speaking scientists, intellectuals and professionals, who oppose evolutionary theory on scientific grounds.
 
Truth in Science was not involved in this seminar and is not in a position to comment on its scientific content. We simply note this scepticism over aspects of evolutionary theory in Europe.