![]() ![]() ![]() The particular amateur under consideration is Elaine Morgan in The Descent of Woman she makes the classic mistake that nonscientists do when dealing with science: the assumption that scientific arguments are about logic and plausibility rather than evidence and testing. I suppose that’s because on the surface it seems so simple but alas, sometimes the simplest things turn out to be the most complicated. ![]() I’m not even considering the legions of Creationists and Intelligent Designers, who come from just about every field except evolutionary biology the three examples cited above are people who accept organic evolution through natural selection, they just don’t understand it. However, evolution is fair game for philosophers ( Darwinian Fairytales) and seems to be especially attractive to screenwriters: ( The Territorial Imperative and The Descent of Woman). You find very few amateur theorists on stellar nucleosynthesis or fluid dynamics or molecular biology. ![]()
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