When I saw this breathtakingly ridiculous guest op-ed on the Dover situation, from two people claiming to be scientists, I shook my head in disbelief that two people with scientific training could be that utterly clueless about how science operates. I was going to sit down and demolish it line by line, but PZ Myers beat me to it. The only thing he didn't go after was their absurd, elementary school-level caricature of science that says that there is a ladder of certainty that goes from hypothesis to theory to "law". And the wife in this two-headed hydra of nonsense claims to have a degree in biology. One can only surmise that she attended Uncle Clem's Biology School and Bait Shop.
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