The Roll of Non Orthodox Ideas in Science

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The way that we do science has been amazingly successful in many ways, right? We get a lot of science done. On the other hand, it's at the expense of shutting down certain lines of inquiry and following them to the end. So i actually am a little bit up in the air about how to balance all the s considerations against each other. And therefore, it's not really a question. What do you think about these issues? I' shared very muchall all those perspectives. But i think i in a way, and again, this is slightly dangerous territory, because we do think that science does have some degree of independent activity to it which his got nothing to do with where

Evolution by natural selection is one of the rare scientific theories that resonates within the wider culture as much as it does within science. But as much as people know about evolution, we also find the growth of corresponding myths. Simon Conway Morris is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who’s new book is From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution. He is known as a defender of evolutionary convergence and adaptationism — even when there is a mass extinction, he argues, the resulting shake-up simply accelerates the developments evolution would have made anyway. We talk about this, and also about the possible role of God in an evolutionary worldview.

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Simon Conway Morris received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Cambridge. He is currently an emeritus professor of evolutionary paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge. Among his awards are the Walcott Medal of the National Academy of Sciences and the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London.

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