Science of the Gaps (2025)
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- Mainstream science appears more solid and all-explaining than it really is due to a cognitive illusion about how much evidence actually exists.
- In a Joe Rogan–Mel Gibson exchange about evolution, Gibson doubts hominid fossils; Rogan assumes detailed genetic evidence exists for early hominids, but it does not.
- No early hominid DNA has been recovered; even Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA is relatively recent and not clear proof of gradual human ancestry.
- People naturally fill in missing evidence when they accept a scientific theory, assuming countless hours of research have confirmed every predicted detail.
- The fossil record is jerky and sudden, not a smooth gradual progression; classic Darwinian cases like horse evolution have been revised or discarded.
- Alternatives like punctuated equilibrium and saltationism interpret the same fossil data differently, showing that Darwinian gradualism is not clearly supported by the raw evidence.
- Public scientific education teaches an ideology and selected examples, not the messy reality of actual evidence, creating an illusion of uniformity and certainty.
- Skeptics and science communicators often overestimate how well mainstream consensus matches actual facts on the ground.