From Don Hostetler
E. Ramón Moliner tells us that he cannot imagine how a snake’s poison system could have evolved (Forum, 11 November). I suggest he read Richard Dawkins’s River out of Eden, especially the passage:
“Never say and never take seriously anybody who says, ‘I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection’. I have dubbed this kind of fallacy, ‘the Argument from Personal Incredulity’. Time and again, it has proved the prelude to an intellectual banana-skin experience.”
