To Dr. Barr: I am generally tolerant of all comments, except spam, but these are too long, and worry me as to the Wordpress software used here. They are aimed at the acquisitions editor??? Nonesuch here. I will leave them for a day, then delete them, sorry. How about a summary, or a link to all this on a webpage?
James comments on Amateurs only people left to critique Darwinism
People in science and academia have to much at stake to criticize Darwinism. And the aura of expertise hides some very elementary flaws in scientific reasoning, among them the obvious violation of scientific procedure in the observation of natural selection. Thus, for this among other reasons, an amateur can easily pinprick the establishment pretensions.
James said,
December 24, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Give me a f*cking break. These people need to get over this idea that learning evolutionary biology is analogous to learning quantum field theory. They can’t simultaneously claim, as Richard Dawkins argues, that evolutionary biology is exceedingly easy to understand but that it can only be evaluated by “experts.”
Three interesting comments from Rondinaro:
On ‘Can Computers Mimic Darwinian Evolution,
On ‘ID and esoteric subject?’,
On ‘Have the New Atheists Shot Their Bolt