"Missing Link" found!

[cacophony]

this is currently my very favorite video on the interwebs.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by cacophony

this is currently my very favorite video on the interwebs.

So THAT'S why I've never met a fat spider monkey....

[cacophony]

that is the best part, isn't it?


i'm actually just replying so i can make sure my sig file updated.

[Dunwho]

Crocoduck... does it quack? cus i want one now..

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

And, now, for the current mindset of everything quick, fast, and easy to understand:



You're not that tall, go ask Alice.

Thanks mom.

[Deckard]

Belief in evolution: stats!

The British Council has asked, with the help of Ipsos MORI, over ten thousand adults across ten countries from China to the USA, just what they think of evolution.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...5f6KX1PNcN7Z4w

Among the results, the % of people who do NOT think there is scientific evidence for evolution:

Argentina - 7
China - 5
Egypt - 19
Great Britain - 7
India - 2
Mexico - 9
Russia - 8
South Africa - 4
Spain - 5
USA - 24

Yes, I'm looking at that bizarrely high % next to USA.

I recommend you all buy someone a copy of this book when it's released.

...from the living examples of natural selection in birds and insects; the 'time clocks' of trees and radioactive dating that calibrate a timescale for evolution; the fossil record and the traces of our earliest ancestors; to confirmation from molecular biology and genetics. All of this, and much more, bears witness to the truth of evolution. "The Greatest Show on Earth" comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is now flourishing as never before, especially in America.

Gaps in fossil record are not holes in theory, y'all!

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Deckard

Belief in evolution: stats!

The British Council has asked, with the help of Ipsos MORI, over ten thousand adults across ten countries from China to the USA, just what they think of evolution.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...5f6KX1PNcN7Z4w

Among the results, the % of people who do NOT think there is scientific evidence for evolution:

Argentina - 7
China - 5
Egypt - 19
Great Britain - 7
India - 2
Mexico - 9
Russia - 8
South Africa - 4
Spain - 5
USA - 24

Yes, I'm looking at that bizarrely high % next to USA.

I recommend you all buy someone a copy of this book when it's released.



Gaps in fossil record are not holes in theory, y'all!

Holy crap, these are humiliating numbers. 24% of Americans don't realize evolution is a proven theory?

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Originally Posted by Sean

Holy crap, these are humiliating numbers. 24% of Americans don't realize evolution is a proven theory?

I'd love to see how many still believe The Bible is the "Word of God" as well.

I'm going to be, like, totally excommunicated from, like, no where.

[cacophony]

Originally Posted by Sean

Holy crap, these are humiliating numbers. 24% of Americans don't realize evolution is a proven theory?

technically if it's proven it's not a theory anymore, it's a law.

i'm not trying to call you out, though. my only contribution to evolution debate these days is an effort to make sure we're all using the correct terminology and concepts. because i feel like the reason we've got 24% of people disbelieving in evolution is because they don't properly comprehend natural selection and what the theory actually states. so you've got people who don't get it, and in their confusion they wholesale reject it.

i feel like we've gone way past the point where we can provide these people with adequate clarification, but if we're going to make any progress at all that's the only way we'll get there.

[Deckard]

I think you're right. Not only do many fail to understand the evidence, but many fail to understand the concept of scientific proof, of evidence, and of the difference between a scientific theory, and the everyday sense in which we casually use the word 'theory'.