We raise many questions and reach no solutions. Clearly, I believe in this interdisciplinary exercise, and I accept the enlightenment that intelligent outsiders can bring to the puzzles of a discipline. First, the law must reach a decision even when insufficient evidence exist for confident judgment.
Legal systems are human inventions, based on a history of human thought and practice.
The press loves an oddity. This publicity is certainly no measure of the book's merit, as I shall argue. Johnson, unfortunately, has taken the low road in writing a very bad book entitled Darwin on Trial . Johnson's current incarnation of this false strategy, Darwin on Trial , hardly deserves to be called a book at all. The book, in short, is full of errors, badly argued, based on false criteria, and abysmally written.