Rewriting Biology Without Spin

It's a funny thing -- scientific papers often have evolutionary language layered on top of the data like icing on a cake. Even in papers that focus particularly on evolutionary explanations, the icing (evolutionary language) still can be distinguished from the cake (the actual experimental data).

I have noticed that this dichotomy creates a kind of double vision. I know what the data underlying evolutionary arguments are. By setting aside the premise that evolution is true, I can read what's...