> This way of thinking is likely more productive for what they are doing.

Which is… attempting a rigorous understanding of evolutionary biology, rather than idly ruminating.

I hate to use a dork-ism like “update your priors”, but this is actually maybe a situation where it applies? If you’re serious about a subject it’s more interesting to really incorporate the likelihood that you’re wrong than it is to wave it away as semantics or point of view.