On Scientific Standards in Biological Sciences and the Author’s Evolutionary Hypothesis of Creation-Saltation Preformationism

In biological science, standards recognize the characteristics of living nature, which is an objective reality and directly observed by researchers in the past or present. The changing paradigm standards for the emergence and development of life were the following theories: preformationism (C. Bonnet), materialistic evolution (C. Darwin), biochemical evolution (A.I. Oparin - J.B.S. Haldane), “Michurin biology” (T.D. Lysenko) synthetic theory evolution (Darwinism + genetics). The following are approaching recognition as paradigms: “nomogenesis” by L.S. Berg as the natural nature of variability and the “theory of punctuated equilibrium” by N. Eldredge and S. Gould as the modern apotheosis of the diverse saltationism hypotheses - “leap-like evolution.” The authors, in 2003, proposed a comprehensive, scientific and apologetic approach to the theory of evolution, combining both materialistic and creation paradigms, putting forward the hypothesis of “creation-saltation preformationism.” 1) Organisms are created by God - creationism. 2) Created with a huge supply of genetic information - preformationism. 3) The transition of one group of organisms to another occurs in jumps, within the framework of genetic information, through the rapid deployment of this information under the influence of changes in the environment, both external and internal - saltationism. Each of the standards recognized at one time by paradigms was declared the ultimate truth, and its non-recognition was branded, at best, with the stamp of ignorance or obscurantism, at worst - with administrative and criminal prosecution. The philosophy of science is designed to help get rid of traditionalism; it is not obliged to be guided by the achievements of predecessors and can think in any original direction.