Well, if he didn do it that way, what is the purpose of the synthesis? What makes it hang together?
A. Well, it is a common rhetoric. I just mentioned the issue of mechanism here. If you look at the Plaintiffs’ experts in this trial, and I’ll give three, because, in a sense, three of them represent a kind of range that exists today in biology. And you think to yourself, what do these people have in common? And so let’s think for a moment of Padian, Kevin Padian, who is a paleontologist who spends his time looking at fossils and classifying them. And then we’ve got Kenneth Miller, who’s a cell biologist who spends his time in laboratories looking at very small things in peatry dishes and so forth. And then you’ve got Pennock, who is basically doing a kind of computer modeling, artificial life research, as it’s normally called. And all these three guys think they’re part of neo-Darwinian synthesis. And the way you see is, of course, when they come to having to make ultimate explanations of what they’re doing, that goes beyond the actual research environment and actual organism or actua
