tuppence wrote
1. You only get funding for experiements that are based on the accepted paradigm.
Your reply:
That is patently false. Funding of science is a complex process and, at the National Science Foundation, is based on external reviews of the proposal, in-house panels and the director. Funding is based on innovation and the opportunity to learn something new. BY definition, one cannot make new breakthroughs if you are not willing to take a chance and challenge the current paradigms and hypotheses. The simple truth is that science would be stalled if no work was done challenging the paradigm.
Would the NSF fund any scientist challanging evolution, which is outside the "accepted paradigm"? If the answer is no then tuppence is correct and you are "patently false".