I saw a website that refered to the macroevolution hypothesis as evolutiontarianism. I thought this was humorous.
Ahh, yes, those creationist websites. Pretty silly, aren't they?
when paradigms change based on the evidence that dissent is often not encouraged. Copernicus would be a good example.
Galileo would be another. But thankfully we don't have religion in charge of science anymore, otherwise there'd be alot more, and we couldn't rejoice whenever somebody makes a discovery that turns our worldview upside down This is why we celebrate Einstein and Watson and Crick as some of the greatest scientific minds of the century. Of course, we sometimes celebrate too early at the overthrow of our cherished beliefs, as with cold-fusion, but that's why we have the wonderful scientific review process, to weed out errors and mistakes.
It seems to me though that the macroevolutionist are the academic equivalent of the Taliban
Are you meaning to say that the taliban had oservable evidence for their god, similar to the one below?
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Predation was a powerful selective force promoting increased morphological complexity in a unicellular prey held in constant environmental conditions. The green alga, Chlorella vulgaris, is a well-studied eukaryote, which has retained its normal unicellular form in cultures in our laboratories for thousands of generations. For the experiments reported here, steady-state unicellular C. vulgaris continuous cultures were inoculated with the predator Ochromonas vallescia, a phagotrophic flagellated protist ("flagellate"). Within less than 100 generations of the prey, a multicellular Chlorella growth form became dominant in the culture (subsequently repeated in other cultures). The prey Chlorella first formed globose clusters of tens to hundreds of cells. After about 10-20 generations in the presence of the phagotroph, eight-celled colonies predominated. These colonies retained the eight-celled form indefinitely in continuous culture and when plated onto agar. These self-replicating, stable colonies were virtually immune to predation by the flagellate, but small enough that each Chlorella cell was exposed directly to the nutrient medium.
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