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What I see as dangerous to progress is the glorification of any scientific theory as a Holy Grail of Truth. This is the current paradigm. Evolutionary biologists have become Reactionaries to a belief and in so doing demonize anyone who would question the self evident Truth.
Evolutionary theory is not some unchanging monolith. It can and does change as our understanding grows. From the "New Synthesis", through the development of the Neutral Theory to the growing "Evo-Devo" field, scientists - real scientists are still working, still generating controversies still changing their minds - when the evidence justifies it.
People like Newton and Wegener didn't rely on PR and spin. They sat down and did the work. Do you agree that they did the right thing ? Or do you think that press releases are more important than experiment, observation and reasoning ?
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