Setanta wrote-
Quote: Darwin relied upon morphology to make the distinctions which lead him to develop a theory of descent with modification by natural selection (as did Wallace). Modern biologists investigate evolution at the molecular level by mapping genomes.
Some of our youngers viewers might not realise the convenience of the above statement for anti-ID propaganda.
What it really means is that unless we are modern molecular biologists mapping genomes for a living we are no longer qualified,or even expected,to offer inputs into this debate.
The language and the concepts in the expert field of genome mapping are beyond our capacities and it therefore follows that we have nothing of interest or relevance to contribute.
These experts have developed an esoteric and highly specialised vocabulary which is incomprehensible to outsiders who are,in the main,taxpayers.The experts are,in the main,beneficiaries of budget funding.
As Gouldner might have said;such modern technical language challenges settled elites and authorities.A sort of gradual coup d'etat.It may be likened to the argot or slang of other sub-cultures.You are only "wise" if you possess the knowledge of it and it enables practictioners of this argot to communicate secretly with each other even within the hearing of non-experts who may well include 99.5% or more of the population, and the writer of the above quote. It often happens,according to Cohen,that the jargon becomes "fetishized" with constant use and sometimes its meaning is forgotten.
Sociologically,it enables cabals of experts to take and use these specialised skills in the furtherance of sectional aims and to gain power which,as even our youngest viewers know,eventually corrupts.
- No, I think that pretty much covers it - 
