Francis Hitching is an evolutionist

From EvoWiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Contents

Claim

Evolutionist Francis Hitching, author of the book The Neck of the Giraffe, stated this: "It is an academic dispute of far-reaching proportions, potentially one of those times in science when, quite suddenly, a long held idea is overthrown by the weight of contrary evidence and a new one takes its place."

Source

Responses

  1. Just because one proponent of evolutionary theory has had his words taken out of context does not even begin to make a theory in crisis. In other words: "Evolutionist John Doe, author of the book It's Wrong After All, Folks stated: "After decades of personal study, I have determined that Charles Darwin was, in fact, wrong. The party's over, go home, nothing to see here. Oh and hey, believe in Jesus!""
  2. Hitching may well be an "evolutionist", but he is emphatically not a scientist; he is a television scriptwriter. The fact that Hitchings is a scriptwriter does not, in and of itself, prevent Hitching from making scientifically valid statements about evolution -- but as a matter of demonstrable fact, unrelated to his profession, Hitching's statements about evolution are not scientifically valid. In addition, Hitching has been known to lie about such things as being a member of the UK's Royal Archaeological Society (Hitching has claimed to be a member; the RAI itself disagrees), his writing of The Neck of the Giraffe having been assisted by Stephen J. Gould (as was expliticly stated in the Acknowledgements section; Gould himself didn't even know Hitching), and Giraffe's having having been endorsed by Richard Dawkins (Dawkins, like Gould, knew nothing about Hitching).
  3. add more responses

Fallacies contained in this claim

Related claims

See Also

Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?

Acknowledgments

Retrieved from "http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Francis_Hitching_is_an_evolutionist"
Personal tools