| timmytomthegreat said: This movie is about Neo-Darwinism not being allowed to be questioned in the educational community. |
This would come as a great shock to Lynn Margulis, who is a professor at the UMass, and a neoDarwinian skeptic. Her theory of endosymbiosis to explain the rise of complex traits (such as chloroplasts and mitochondria). While her theory was originally disregarded, she managed to get the scientific community to finally recognize its validity by demanding equal time for endosymbiosis in classrooms, criticizing the scientific community for suppressing her beliefs, challenging orthodoxy in court, putting pressure on politicians, and making pro-endosymbiosis movies starring low rent comedians.
No, wait. She proved her case by doing RESEARCH and providing EVIDENCE. Which is why she's a REAL scientists, her idea a REAL SCIENTIFIC theory, and why she has the RESPECT of the scientific community.
TOO BAD BEN STEIN COULDN'T FIND HER NAME OR THEORY MENTIONED IN A HIGH SCHOOL TEXTBOOK
(like this one: http://www.millerandlevine.com/chapter/17/index.html )
