(December 20, 2019 at 5:30 pm)JackRussell Wrote: No. Your analogy is flawed and textbooks are for beginners, I prefer the latest science.
Do you think Latin speakers turned into French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian speakers in a day?
Textbooks are how new generations of scientists learn their trade. That's why Thomas Kuhn used them as qualitative data for his philosophy of science, to observe paradigm shifts and revolutions in science:
"These textbooks expound the body of accepted theory, illustrate many or all of its successful applications, and compare these applications with exemplary observations and experiments" (Kuhn, 1970, p. 10).
No, Latin didn't turn to French in a day; the length of time, however, is irrelevant when it comes to identifying that transition. If you can provide the specific amount of time (e.g. "2 million years") that is used as a yardstick by "the latest science" to distinguish microevolution from macroevolution, I'll withdraw my argument.
Reference: Kuhn, Thomas S. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press