Is evolution a theory in crisis, as some people say?
I think it is a theory in crisis, but that requires some explanation. The authorities of the evolutionary scientific community would say, “We’re not in crisis because we’re as determined as ever. We still have a solid phalanx of belief. Yes, we get individual dissenters, but they are quickly closed off and marginalized. They tend to lose their research funds, be considered no longer real scientists anymore.” So the community maintains its authority. The crisis that they have to recognize is that they have failed to convince the public. They assumed that by this time they would have marginalized all the opposition and the public would be convinced. After all, they now had virtual control of the educational machinery from primary school on up through the Ph.D. level to do that. Plus all those documentaries on television and in the movies where the orthodoxy is put forward. I foresee the day when Darwinian evolution will be taught in courses on British intellectual history, and biology wi
