But it’s interesting the number of people on this forum with degrees and careers in science who don’t follow every pronouncement of science lockstep.
We’re constantly being told that science is about investigating,and challenging, and yet when someone does, they’re ostracized.
“Today we see fossils as the remains of creatures that once lived. However, this nature is not inherent in the fossils. It is our immersion in a century and a half of Darwinian thought, not the fossils themselves, that gives us the capacity to see see fossils as kin to things that were once as alive as you or I.”
On page 8 Gee had commented on why the evolution story depicted as history by paleontology is unscientific:
“Whether you believe the conventional wisdom that our own species, homo sapiens, descended in seamless continuity from the preexisting species, homo erectus, depends not on the evidence(because the fossil evidence is moot) but on the deferment of your lack of knowledge to the authority of the presenter or whether the presentation of the evidence resonates with your prejudices. The assumption of authority is profoundly, mischievously, and dangerously unscientific.”
The excesses of Darwinism are sometimes too much even for its believers.