Having followed for a while the various debates about evolution (except Intelligent Design, I've got no time for that), I am continually amazed by how unscientific the people upholding the scientific status quo are.

I understand that they would circle the wagons to repel attacks by the 'ignorant savages' outside of their own group... but to see them behave the same way against 'one of their own' is quite remarkable. I wonder if it is just a knee-jerk reaction they have developed... that anyone who even questions their pet theory is attacked as not knowing what they are talking about. How can someone claim to be 'rational' and yet at the same time be making ad hominem attacks against one of the founders of a field and claiming that he doesn't know what he is talking about? The levels of self deception implicit in that are simply staggering.

I liked the quote in the article that a scientist who can't change his mind isn't much of a scientist at all.