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CONSENSUS

March 16, 2014 Brett MIler Leave a comment

Consensus is supposed to represent the agreement of the experts. Yet consensus also means that there isn’t enough evidence to make a conclusion based on the evidence alone. Not all fields of knowledge rely on consensus as a means to verify a fact. Those that do however suffer from the problem that consensus, once formed, tends to snowball. It attracts careers, institutions, the media, governments and those who are driven by peer acceptance. Once the consensus becomes enforced and entrenched

EVOLUTIONARY SLEIGHT OF HAND

March 16, 2014 Brett MIler Leave a comment

In evolutionary stories you are often directed to a particular speculation that seems to be supported by science and seems to confirm the accumulation of many unseen evolutionary changes. The focus is drawn to something that looks as if it could have evolved. But you need to think about what it is they are not looking at and what they bypass and what they assume in order to make the story sound plausible. In most cases it is not that

EVOLUTION: STARRING NATURAL SELECTION

March 13, 2014 Brett MIler Leave a comment

“In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term.” Charles Darwin Natural selection is the star of the evolutionary process. How often is natural selection given exclusive credit for a presumed evolutionary advance in biotechnology? Meanwhile, mutation, its silent partner with the bad reputation, the one that did all the design work, misses another opportunity for stardom. Even Darwin was aware that natural selection wasn’t capable of causing anything without variation. Consider the following