ICONS OF EVOLUTION
By Jonathan Wells
Regnery Publishing. 338 pages. . US$ 27.95
ISBN 0 89526 276 2
How do changes come about in science? How does one theory get discarded and a new one emerge? These questions were investigated by Thomas Kuhn, in a book which has now become a classic, entitled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Experimental research produces data, and a scientific theory is an interpretation of that data which ties everything together in a coherent system. As more data comes to light, or the original data is scrutinized more carefully, old theories are discarded and new theories take shape. But the time between theories is characterised by bitter controversy. We are in the 'bitter controversy' stage as the weaknesses in Darwin's theory of evolution are being ever more clearly exposed.
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