Skewering James Shapiro (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, August 11, 2011, 04:04 (4854 days ago) @ David Turell

New paradigms are always hard to swallow for so many.
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> > It's the self-promoting bullshit that sticks in my craw.
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> You haven't read the book. How do you know it is bs? The book has finally made it to my bedside. A biochemical review will follow. And aren't PZ & Dawkins self-promoting bs? I hope you have read Thomas Kuhn.-Kuhn caused a shift in my thinking, that's for sure. It centralized the idea for me (in MY words) that science is only really reliable over very long stretches of time. The key thing to remember is that science really is evolution by natural selection.-David hates it when I say this, but even if nothing changes in the peer review system as it is, wrong ideas are always expunged--it's just whether or not you're patient enough to let nature take its course...

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"