To Have a View on the Darwin Debate, Do You Need a PhD in Evolutionary Science?

In a tweeted exchange with David Klinghoffer last week, National Review's Kevin Williamson wrote that having an opinion about Darwinian evolution requires advanced graduate study in the field: "'The needed study' = graduate-level work in evolutionary science."

Uh huh. That's an often-heard claim, and it sure gives an out to the journalist inclined, for whatever reason, to accept the prestige view, as presented in popular media accounts of the evolution debate, that Darwinian theory is scient...