[js1138]

The part that puzzles me is the tendency for some scientists to speculate on how natural selection explains, say, a preference for blondes, or Methodism.

If you read actual science you would understand that the popular press only reports findings and speculations that are sexy. There's money to be made in popular science writing, but most of us start to nod off when Stephen Gould starts talking about the history of marine snails.

Darwin wrote hundreds of pages on barnicles. I've yet to see anyone on FR challenge his findings. You are seeing only the National Enquirer branch of science.

[Taliesan]

I don't see the serious responsible branch rebuking the National Enquirer branch for the unscientific methodology inherent in speculating that natural selection is the source of characteristics that have not been proven to be biologically based.