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Is Evolution a Good Idea?
Sometimes I feel like we're still working on convincing everyone that Darwinian thought is acceptable. There is complexity in communicating that and almost like it gives ammunition to rhetorical ammunition to those who have been trying to say that evolution doesn't explain how we can be. It's particularly difficult because biologists are miles behind all other types of scientists in clinging to their orthodoxies. So you have this really toxic schizophrenia in the biological establishment between what people do and say during the day and what they think when they get out of the lab.