News update by Walter ReMine
April 7, 2007
For many years I have publicly claimed Haldane's Dilemma is a major unsolved problem for evolution. A problem so severe it threatens macroevolution as a "fact" and evolutionary genetics as an empirical science. Toward a solution, evolutionary geneticist, Leonard Nunney, published a paper reporting his computer simulations. He claimed his computer simulations show rates of beneficial evolution much faster than the Haldane limit. Though evolutionists (including Nunney) have never discussed my work in ink, their Internet activists ruthlessly misrepresent my work (almost always anonymously, or effectively so) – and they now cite Nunney's computer simulation as a definitive refutation of my position.
Starting December 19, 2006, I sent emails to Prof. Nunney, expressing my interest in his paper, and requesting access to his simulation software. After several emails, across several months, I still received no reply. Perhaps he had moved on? So on March 7th, I emailed a separate evolutionist professor in his department, again expressing the situation and requesting access to the simulation software. Again, I received no reply.
I then switched away from emails, and eventually reached Professor Nunney by phone on April 5th. He acknowledged he had received my emails, and said he did had not responded because I "do not publish in peer-reviewed journals" (his words) – which is evolutionist-speak for Anti-evolutionist!
I again requested his software for my examination of his published results and methods. He declined, saying he will not share his software with "people who do not publish in peer-reviewed journals."
I'm sure Prof. Nunney is a fine person, but this is bad public policy. Nunney's simulation is claimed as a solution to Haldane's Dilemma. (Quite falsely, I would add.) And Nunney's work was done at a tax-supported institution, (the University of California, Riverside). And Haldane's Dilemma is part of a high profile public controversy directly affecting our politics, and our public schools – where evolutionists exert monopoly control. Evolutionists have an obligation to be forthcoming on the matter.
I've already documented here (and for many years on sci.bio.evolution) that the evolutionary literature on Haldane's Dilemma is overwhelmed with confusion and contradiction, and that evolutionary geneticists have allowed the confusion to thrive for decades. I've already documented that evolutionists suppress papers from their journals – papers that evolutionary peer-reviewers acknowledge as correct, and whose purpose is to eliminate the pervasive confusions. I've already documented (also here and here) that evolutionary activists on the Internet continue to ruthlessly misrepresent my material, even long after they've been publicly called on it. I've already documented that evolutionary activists repeatedly expunge any decent coverage of Haldane's Dilemma from Wikipedia. (For example, compare Wikipedia with ResearchID.org.)
Now we have evolutionists withholding their evidence on Haldane's Dilemma.
Haldane's Dilemma is a scandal several decades long already, and the scandal keeps getting worse. It would be much better for everyone if evolutionists behaved straightforwardly – as the scientists they profess to be.