"Evolution denial is pseudoscience"
Joe, that was a momentary philosophical lapse on your part, if only in your choice of language.
Two hundred years ago, a denial of Newtonian physics, or Euclidean geometry, considered as models for the universe at large, would have been regarded as 'pseudoscience'. And such a denial, at that time, would certainly have been based upon specious reasoning. But sound reasoning was eventually elaborated, by Lobachevsky, by Poincare, by Einstein, and others.
'Denial is pseudoscience' is the philosophical equivalent of 'Dissent is treason' (a concept with which we have become familiar in recent years).
I would like to (very slightly) misquote Richard Feynman: 'Everything we think we know in science is only an approximation'. There is always a better hypothesis. As you well know, there exist fundamental scientific questions which Evolution Theory - just like Relativity Theory - is currently unable to answer.
Two hundred years ago, a denial of Newtonian physics, or Euclidean geometry, considered as models for the universe at large, would have been regarded as 'pseudoscience'. And such a denial, at that time, would certainly have been based upon specious reasoning. But sound reasoning was eventually elaborated, by Lobachevsky, by Poincare, by Einstein, and others.
'Denial is pseudoscience' is the philosophical equivalent of 'Dissent is treason' (a concept with which we have become familiar in recent years).
I would like to (very slightly) misquote Richard Feynman: 'Everything we think we know in science is only an approximation'. There is always a better hypothesis. As you well know, there exist fundamental scientific questions which Evolution Theory - just like Relativity Theory - is currently unable to answer.
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