al community is evident in the history of Darwin's evolutionary theory and its encounter with religious, social, and political entities quite hostile to its ideas.
It is in the encounter of hard science with other areas of study on interdisciplinary boundaries that Kuhn's views are the subject of Internet discourse. A range of opinion about the validity of his ideas can be found online.
An Internet site under the banner of Atlanta-based Emory University (http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/Kuhnsnap.html) supplies a summary of Kuhn's ideas about scientific paradigm shifts and includes a variety of relatively recent critical treatments of his theories. This site explains the impact of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as innovative because it gave a heretical account of the idea that science is a narrative of uninhibited progress. Instead, the site explains, Kuhn exposed the notion of impartiality and objectivity of the scientific community as a suspect and often highly politicized category. That would help explain the Church's resistance to Galileo's and Copernicus' cosmic theory; eventually, the
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