Molecular data is less certain than perhaps it is sometimes presented, molecular clocks in particular have large uncertainties associated, but to disregard them entirely is baby-with-bathwater nonsense.
Agreed. I put this up more because I was pretty shocked that they would disregard the molecular data so off hand. I didn't really find the article too convincing, I just thought it was interesting the press it was getting. I'll take a look at that blog post, though
We have many intuitions in our life and the point is that many of these intuitions are wrong. The question is, are we going to test those intuitions?
-Dan Ariely