"Mudcat ate my cookie"? I wish mudcat was a Frenchman who ate snails! For your information, oh thou who art scared of truth, Richard Dawkins has said that evolution is true on several occasions, so what's all this "brushing aside" bollox! Yes, the philosophy of science is an interesting area without which science would lose its base, but science has also got to be a tad pragmatic (otherwise it would disappear up its own philosophical arsehole instead of moving on for the good of mankind and the natural world), and the pragmatic side of me tells me that there is no doubt worth contemplating (which is not quite the same as no doubt whatsoever) that evolution happens, If you disagree, do apprise us of your demurrals, with full reasons. Do you not think that evolution happens? Do you think that someone, some day, will come up with a convincing counter-explanation? Ultimately, Gastropodus stalkerissimus, are you actually a closet creationist?