Subduction Zone
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I'm not sure how far it went as far as disagreeing eventually, and why, but I might surmise that the reason some scientists dissented from the dissenters is that some of the dissenting scientists that agree that Darwinian concept of evolution is wrong is because they don't believe in God but realize the validity of the concept that there are elements that are irreducibly complex. In other words, doubtful that these things just came about by themselves in their apparently irreducible complexity.
First off most of the scientists that signed that were scientists in other fields than biology or paleontology. In other words they really did not know what they were talking about. Very very few biologists and paleontologists signed that and most of them accepted the theory of evolution. They were not dissenters. The wording of the petition means that people were not necessarily dissenters if they signed it. That alone makes it worthless.
And then when some of the signers found that those who were organizing the petition were dishonest and planned to misrepresent their signatures they asked them to be taken off. The Discovery Institute refused. That makes it even more worthless.
You are relying on dishonest people.