"Jerry A. Coyne (professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago) states:
“In science’s pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical science, laden with history’s inevitable imponderables. We evolutionary biologists cannot generate a Cretaceous park to observe exactly what killed the dinosaurs; and unlike ‘harder’ scientists, we usually cannot resolve issues with a simple experiment, such as adding tube A to tube B and noting the color of the mixture.”
Evolutionary biology and the other topics ...matters of history that should not be conflated with hard sciences." CMI
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