Magisterium Devolver writes:
My arugment is that pseudo-scientific
inspirations have made significant contributions to scientific progress in the past, and that by allowing pseudo-scientific inspirations (in addition to but
not replacing valid scientific inquiry) the progress of science may be enhanced.
No source of inspiration is disallowed in science. You already have your wish.
Your book quote advocates keeping the scientific issues of evolution separate from the philosophical, which is pretty much how most evolutionists here already view things.
--Percy