And just who are you to say it isn't? You must have faith in raspberry flavored jello.
And having just gone to one, it's clear they try to appear "scholarly" by using ridiculous sentence structures as one weapon. My technical report writing professor, bless his heart, gave us two simple rules to spot bad writing. One was long sentences, the other was abundance of prepositional phrases. The site "Natural Selection an Agency of Stasis, not Change" is a perfect example of both, citing a lot of irrelevent garbage to bolster an extremely weak argument.
But it sounds very learned, to some anyway.