Discussion of Big Science Today, by an Important Member of the National Association of Scholars

[Mercer (John Mercer)]

@Faizal_Ali

In fairness, I don’t know that he has ever claimed that, exactly.

I do. To you!

@Eddie

Your shortsightedness appears to be due to unawareness of the history of evolutionary thought, a history which writers such as Denton and Gould have taken some time to learn something about.

To Taq!

@Eddie

Once again, you show huge gaps in your knowledge of contemporary evolutionary thought.

@Eddie

Following up on Denton’s account of structuralism vs. adaptationism, I found that he was very much influenced by Gould’s account of the history of evolutionary thought, and that got me reading more of Gould’s big fat book, and I found it helpful.

@Eddie

Parts of Gould’s Structure of Evolutionary Theory are accessible to the intelligent layperson who knows some basic science, and I have read some of that work; there are also writings of biologists such as James Shapiro, Gunter Wagner, Scott Turner, etc. which summarize what goes on their fields accurately.

So, the same person who brags like this resorts to the creationist trope of “the first rat.”