Science

It occurs to me that, while it is not difficult to point to the fallacy of appealing to authority, appealing to “science” is presented, is transmogrified, from an appeal to concrete, fallible human beings to a method which is perfect in principle.  For the reality–men and women with psychodynamic histories, cognitive flaws, hidden greeds and lusts–it substitutes something abstract and something perfect.

“Science” becomes the Pythagorean Theorem, and if enough of the people who “do” science agree on something, it is presumed to be right.  One cannot even dip one’s toes into the issues on Darwinism or Global Warming without getting “science” thrown back at you.

With regard to that former topic, I am reading a book on the topic.  Were you aware that not ONE example of speciation–of one species becoming another–has ever been recorded, either in modern observation, or in the fossil record?  Certainly, in the fossil record there are similar fossils, but nothing reliable can be inferred from them, any more than if a monkey and human were buried next to each other and dug up a million years from now.

Within bacteria, in particular, you can create multiple generations daily, and do so for years.  What is seen is variation, change, adaptation.  But not speciation.

I felt, reading this book, like I had stumbled onto a murder scene, where the wrong person had been arrested.