Re: This is how true science works.

allanm wrote:


Certainly, one would hope that 'real' science (including evolutionary
biology) would morph and change if theory is found wanting. But one
would expect such morphing and changing to cease, barring refinements,
when theory has more or less hit the nail on the head.

We have no way of knowing (for sure) whether a theory has hit the nail right on the head. The best we can say of a theory is that it is consistent with all that we happen to know at this time.

Bob Kolker


Evolution only appears dogmatic because it seems to have hit the nail firmly on the

It is well that used the word "seems".


head. Of course, Nobel prizes, fame and (possibly) fortune await those
who can provide a genuine revolution - feel free to point out those
researchers who may be onto something in that regard. The rest, sadly -
pretty much everybody working in the field - must indeed be pitiful
evo-goons, awaiting enlightenment and ignorant of their ignorance.

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