06.26.09
Mr. Myers, you are the real crackpot
Again,
King of all science media! Or, craigslist for crackpots?
As usual, though, Mazur gets the science all wrong. There will be no paradigm shift. I am confident that there will be a gradual integration of more developmental biology into evolutionary theory, a process that is going on right now, but that this will require no radical re-evaluation of theory — evo-devo is exciting and opens up new areas of productive research, but it doesn’t turn the world upside-down. It’s a specific subset of evolutionary theory, not a replacement. As for structuralism, it has its place, too, and this isn’t some sudden ploy by me — you can find me writing about it in 2003 and 2004, for example. Again, it will not replace the molecular/genetic approach to development, but it can supplement it.
I think not, Mr. Myers. At least someone in the journalism circuit has the nerve to report on what should be public knowledge: Darwinism is dead.
So it is the Darwin fanatics who have gotten the science wrong.
Your post acknowledges indirectly that there is a problem.
The hypocrisy here is tremendous. Scientists don’t want anyone to know there was ever a problem and want to absorb a new paradigm into the old.
They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it.
And it won’t work. Evo-devo is an example of how this distorts science. Evo-devo should have made clear that Darwinism was wrong. Instead it got grafted onto the old paradigm. The result is incorrect science.
They don’t want to lose their beloved natural selection. So be wary of the gang of crackpots at work in biology circles trying to rig the new research to make it fit with Darwinism.
This is a gross distortion of Mazur’s articles, which were all linked to on this blog. I will put up the links again, and you will see that Myers is afraid that anyone will realize what is going on.
Meanwhile, the real crackpot was Darwin, the true crank theory based on natural selection, delusively passed off at the ultimate science.