| This model requires the acknowledgement of counterevidence and the willingness among serious scholars to argue either side of a debate. |
| People persevere in asserting all sorts of things in the face of apparent counterevidence. |
| So why does anyone find these arguments credible, given the wealth of obvious counterevidence? |
| Supporters of natural selection responded, with some justification, that it is simply not true that no counterevidence is possible. |
| Probably because in their desire to explain so much, big thinkers tend to skip over complicating factors and counterevidence. |
| The result is that mistaken beliefs or conclusions, once formed, resist counterevidence? |
