[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Is there some particular reason why these people cannot come up with a better theory than evolution to explain things?

"Any model is better than none"

Since evolution is a model for the situation, and there are no decent alternatives, we will continue to use evolution.

Yeah, anyone that questions the party line is run out of the field. Kinda hard to conduct research when your colleagues refuse to talk to you, reject your articles in peer-reviewed publications, and get you fired from your lab/university.

Stephen Jay Gould faced some fairly hostile reactions for merely proposing a slight modification of the theory. It's an on-going controversy though a bit less heated than it was. Do a web search on 'Punctuated Equilibrium' and read about it.

[ March 16, 2003, 03:51: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]