Stephen Jay Gould, a professor of biology, geology and the history of science at Harvard University, expresses his disappointment with the way science is presented. ... According to Gould, good science involves testing, proving or disproving ideas as opposed to merely accepting useless speculation as fact. ... Also, as Gould points out, this theory does not take into account the extinction of several species of marine life in the same time period. He then proceeds to point out that the theory of the dinosaurs overdosing on angiosperms was mainly speculation because these plants were aroun...

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The philosopher Daniel Dennett has defended a strong neo-Darwinian position, drawing from biology, probability theory, cognitive science, and computer simulations. ... In the 1980s the "creation science" movement put pressure on state legislatures and local school boards to require biology teachers to give a "balanced treatment" of evolutionary theory and "abrupt appearance theory" as two alternative scientific hypotheses, claiming that the latter could be defended on scientific grounds alone. ... Thereafter few new phyla appeared -- even when mass extinctions (such as those caused by the impa...

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With its primary study focused on the 'consciousness' of the human mind, Artificial Intelligence draws from all faculties of research - neuroscience, psychology, physics and biology - to name but a few (Roberts 1993. ...

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