Culture is the hand lens through which we see the world. It shapes the ideas we use to make sense out of what is happening around us and how we think the world works. Darwinism is now being used to explain the evolution of many things, from business and scientific ideas to modern art. Some of these explanations would please Lamark with their use of his principle of acquired characteristics. Science is not free of culture.
Blinkered dogmatism continues until new evidence is overwhelming and a new theory deposes the old.
Much of the evidence which apparently supports a theory actually supports its acceptability to scientists and the general community. Most people, including writers and scientists, are unaware of their biased framework of ideas-silent assumptions. Why some invalid concepts are accepted without questions and why others that are obviously true are rejected is puzzling. Popular writers of evolution start off by stating that Lamarkism has definitely been proved to be invalid. Then they come up with eloquent stories using Lamarkism to explain how things have evolved.