Difference between revisions of "18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal and Chapter 2020"

The reasonable idea is that you should not be able to smuggle Jesus into evolutionary theory. You should not be able to do Young Earth Creationism inside of a scientific context. That is the previous ''reasonable'' version of Peer Review. It makes sense as quality control. But, what happens when you start talking about perception-mediated selection? For example, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8_8L9cqfco pseudocopulation in orchids], which we've discussed before, or in the predatory system with the other muscle ''lampsilus'', where the perception of the bass matters, because [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j9dxbB4Z1o it thinks it's consuming a bait fish]. But in fact, that's a fake bait fish filled with the young of the muscle. In both of those cases you have perception mediated selection, and you can make an argument that that should be called "intelligent design" but those magic words can't appear in that journal. Why? For a political reason. So what we have is we've created a system based around quality control that in fact is rife and open for abuse.