Today I came across a few articles in the news that just so happen to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Darwin's Origin of Species. The first one is about how people are yet again attempting to replace evolution with intelligent design, and the Vatican is now involved:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/religion/post/2009/02/62699799/1
The second one is about Darwin and evolutionary psychology. It discusses how the classic branching "tree diagram" may be wrong, and how he may have gotten some other concepts wrong too.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/feb/11/evolution-charles-darwin
I say, so what?
People are sometimes wrong. In this case Darwin may have been on the wrong track about a few things but for the most part people still believe him.
Which leads me into the discussion of this week's reading on the 3 American psychologists.
I thought our class discussion of Hall especially related to this article. Hall get many concepts completely wrong, such as the entire adolescent girls thing and segregated genders in classrooms for the purpose of becoming more feminine or masculine. But this doesn't mean that we disregard everything that he ever accomplished. Heaven knows that would be a mistake! It seems to happen a lot. Many of the 'quack' ideas may have had some basis behind it at one point, and now it is not relevant anymore (such as animal magnetism). So we move on and learn more.
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