Darwinian and panbiogeographic frameworks

[MAGarland at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 8/20/99 6:39:13 PM EDT, jrg13 at PSU.EDU writes:

> >Science is not about holding committed opinions or ideologies, but about
the
>  >search for specific kinds of information that will permit us to
>  >distinguish among
>  >them.
>
>  It seems to me that much of science has been about holding committed
> opinions
>  or ideologies.

You all seem to be arguing about whether Kuhn's ideas of science are correct
(see "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions").  We are in a Darwinian
paradigm now, are we not?  And it's going to take a lot of evidence to change
that.

Mark Garland
Florida Department of Environmental Protection