The experts therefore have a vested interest in protecting the story, and in imposing rules of reasoning that make it invulnerable. You don't like to have your judgments called into question. And every now and then the criticisms are on the money. When distinguished scientists are wrong they are just as wrong as the rest of us. The principle that the king can do no wrong does not apply in science.
Idols have feet of clay.
That's right, prisoners. In the evolution debate, the same thing occurs. The approach of some evolutionists is to apply demarcation criteria to rule out of court the arguments of those who would try to challenge them. If competing hypotheses are eliminated before they are evaluated, remaining theories may acquire an undeserved dominance. The review was an undisguised hatchet job, aimed at giving the impression that my skepticism about Darwinism must be due to an ignorance of basic facts of biology.