– Now you find disputes all across the different the various fields of evolutionary biology, right?
Whether you're in Population Genetics
or you're looking at anatomy, there are lots of disputes.
Now let's deal with the core ideas here.
The first thing is that natural selection is being challenged
by some evolutionary biologists, by a totally different paradigm,
so for example we have James Shapiro
and again not religious scientists by any measure
and he believes that we can challenge Darwinism and have an alternative,
and he thinks that is Evolution by Natural Genetic Engineering.
– Right.
– We have Eva Joblancka,
she believes we can challenge Darwinism by Neo Lamarckism.
We have people like Masatoshi Nei from Japan,
he wants to challenge Darwinism and he wants to replace it with New Mutation.
What's very important about Masatoshi Nei
is he says Darwin has become into a God in biology,
like you can't challenge him and Darwinism has become into a type of dogma.
So he doesn't believe that all of these stories which are told about it
and all of this you know, the efficacy of it, it doesn't add up.
Likewise Lynn margulis who I mentioned earlier,
and we're going to get into this later.
She said, "Look, history is going to judge these neo-Darwinists
as a Anglo-Saxon sect".
She actually said this, right.
And she's not the only biologist saying that Darwinism is not just a scientific theory,
it's becoming to a dogma, it's become into a religious worldview.
In evolutionary psychology you know,
they tried to give a Darwinian explanation
for why men like the color blue and women like the color red.
So they said, "Oh you know, in the in the ancient time,
when we used to live in hunter-gatherer societies,
men that had a a genetic mutation which made them like the color blue,
they more likely to survive, why?
Because when they go to the watering hole - it's blue.
When they see a clear sky - is blue, so they're interacting with the color blue,
so they're more likely to survive and enhance their fitness.
Women are cutting meat, foraging,
picking berries and apples, so they they're dealing more with the color red,
so the ones who have a mutation for preference of the color red
are more likely to survive".
So they came up with this sophisticated hypothesis, right.
Sounds kind of interesting.
Then comes along this atheist philosopher, right.
And he says, "What earth are you guys talking about?"
Firstly, this idea that men like the color blue
and women like the color red is a very eurocentric way of looking at the world,
because this isn't true universally.
Secondly, 150 years ago during the Victorian Era, in the good old days,
men used to like the color red and women used to like the color blue.
It was actually the opposite about 150 years ago.
So this story is a Just So Story.
So some evolutionary biologists they wanted to challenge these Darwinian stories, these fairy tales,
so they started labeling them Just So Stories.
And that was such a powerful name for them that it's actually stuck around,
it's actually becoming to an academic term now, this idea of Just So Stories.
And this just goes to show you how fiery the disputes actually are when it comes to the Darwinian explanations
that they try and give us for whether it's color preference, behavior
or even sometimes anatomy.
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