(January 27, 2015 at 6:12 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Yeah, because no scientist ever wants to become world famous by overturning a major scientific theory.To say nothing of the adulation of literally billions of religious people who would see it as a major blow in an ideological battle for the souls of humanity. The surge in popularity would dwarf the other rewards.
Winning the Nobel for biology, and the prize money and the recognition that goes along with it must really suck.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould