Frustrated by the amount of dragon legends to be found in cultures across the earth because 'man could never have seen these creatures as they pre-dated him by millions of years' Carl Sagan wrote a book called Dragons of Eden.
He realised that 'dragon legends' in such abundance worked against the evolutionary hypothesis as these creatures would have to have been actual dinosaurs and the frequency of 'sightings' was so great and so varied that the case for the co-existence of man and the 'terrible lizards' was not too far from being conclusive.
Wildly clutching for an alternative, he therefore postulated that a small section of our brains - inherited from reptilian ancestors (naturally enough) - had somehow stored this information which had then been passed on (dare I say, 'magically'?) down literally millions of generations.
There really is nothing more pathetic than a scientist desperately clinging onto ideas - however ridiculous or absurd - when the evidence is beginning to pile up against them.
Imagine the fallout if a well-known creationist or some 'leading light' who believes in ID were to argue their case using this level of logic. 
In fairness - many of his evolutionary buddies were rather embarrassed by what he'd written - however, they kept largely silent as they had NO ready response at all of their own to the issue!
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