[Fester Chugabrew]

"The effect of an idea about the nature of reality on it's holders is not a reasonable measure of it's likely truth."

This statement applies equally to any belief system, including evolution. Regardless of the volume of inductive evidence, or how fine-grained it is, in the end it is a belief system that foists itself upon the public arena as if it were absolute truth.

[js1138]

in the end it is a belief system that foists itself upon the public arena as if it were absolute truth.

A good example of how science handles new ideas can be found in the way it handled quantum theory. Nothing in the realm of human ideas has upset so many long held and intuitive ideas.

[Condorman]

...any belief system, including evolution

Evolution is not a belief system. It is simply a scientific theory in which the vast majority (of scientists, if it need be said) have a high degree of confidence.

[donh]

in the end it is a belief system that foists itself upon the public arena as if it were absolute truth.

Perhaps, but not by scientists, who are almost universally careful to point out that all scientific theories are held tentatively, whenever asked in a public arena.