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Author Topic:   "You are not really a scientist. You are a biologist"
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Message 30 of 32 (453352)
02-01-2008 10:32 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by randman
01-31-2008 3:09 AM


PZ Myers responds to this over at Pharyngula.
He notes that sci-fi programs have physicists as advisors rather than biologists - and the biology in the shows is almost universally awful (Vulcans producing viable offspring with humans? They're not just different species but they are in a whole different domain! (Then again Star Trek does have an xeno-IDer so...)). Evolution happening to individuals, rather than populations, aliens who couldn't possibly have evolved (eg., Alien).
Anyway, it generated a lot of discussion, so anyone interested in the issue might gain some interesting insights by reading it.

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