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The Great Dying
Hsu, Kenneth J. The Great Dying . New York, Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1986, 292 pages.
An account of Hsu's geological research (and how that research
provided support for the Cretaceous-Tertiary "impact" extinction
scenario), this book is notable for its lively portrayals of
geologists and paleontologists; but especially interesting are
Hsu's discussions of Darwinism and natural selection. Here's a
representative quote:
[Consider] whether natural selection is a law of science or a
statement of ideology. By Popper's test of falsifiability, and by
the test of its power to predict, it fails. Its powers of
prediction are less even than those of history, for if we studied
the records of Rome before its fall...we might predict its fall
without knowing that that had happened. But were we to know
everything of the last days of the Maastrichtian flora and fauna,
were actually to watch movies of dinosaurs and ammonites, study
in the greatest detail their ways of life on the earth of that
time, we could not predict their demise. There was no warning; no
theory could encompass what happened. We also cannot falsify the
notion of inferiority in those that expired, or superiority in
those that survived, because, in the words of the creationists,
"it would be impossible to describe a scientific experiment" that
would duplicate the event that ended the Cretaceous era. (p. 275-
276)
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