[mrjesse]

Not very hard. Instead of demanding to be spoon fed, you could actually visit your local university library, and you could peruse the approximately 93,000 journal articles available here. It takes time and effort to learn the specifics of evolutionary biology. I know, I know. It really should be as easy as watching TV. But it's not.

I didn't have to read 93,000 articles in order to learn about all the other sciences I've dabbled in. This one's a special case, I'm telling you! :-)

But I'm seeing a theme here. I ask for the best evidence -- and people keep responding with lists of thousands of hits. Why not just provide me with a good one? Or do I have to read thousands of articles and make it my life's work to learn evolutionary biology in order to see the evidence? What constitutes trying hard enough? Are only those who devote their life to studying it able to ever learn enough to see these solid mountains of evidence?

I've got to be real here. After enough of this same thing -- being referred to 93 thousand articles when one good one would get me started -- it's only logical for me to wonder if the evidence really doesn't stand on its own too well, so inquirers should be thrown thousands of pages which they cannot possible read entirely, in an effort to frustrate them till they give up and go away.

Is there a particular article in there I should read in order to understand? or do I have to read them all? What does constitute trying hard enough?

Thanks,

-Jesse

[atlaw]

I didn't have to read 93,000 articles in order to learn about all the other sciences I've dabbled in.

I believe "dabbled" is the operative word here. You obviously want someone to spoon feed you, and it is equally obvious that your response to anything presented will be either "not enough" or "too much -- make it simpler." Educate yourself. Nobody really wants to play games with an adult in a high-chair.