Really? I've studied statistics, and math up through college calculus. A strong math background was required in order to get an undergraduate degree in biochemistry and molecular biology, and was a prerequisite for applying to graduate school (PhD, same majors). Mathematical and statistical analysis is a requirement for publishing in any scientific journal. How anyone could think that mathematics and statistics are not applicable to the study of evolutionary biology--which encompasses most life sciences disciplines--is beyond me.
Feel free to enlighten me by providing links to the original research reports, and post the statistical analyses which demonstrate that the observations and analyses in the reports are mistaken.
I am always suspicious of Free Republic posters that have their old democratic past in their name. Deep down there is an air of superiority in that " I was a democrat so I was cool once but now I am like you". That bothers me. If I was an ex dem I would hide that fact out of shame.
Why? As a child, I had no choice about the fact that I was being raised in a family of far-left lunatics, and that I was thoroughly steeped in far-left attitudes and ideology. Being able to overcome that by critically thinking about and rejecting the attitudes of entitlement, victimhood, envy and resentment that are taught to poor liberals is a true accomplishment--most people raised that way remain steeped in those losing attitudes and usually never achieve anything. I never would have been able to go to college and eventually earn a PhD had I held on to those liberal beliefs. I'm proud of the fact that I overcame my background.
I will explain this like you were a 3 year old. Turn off all the bullcrap you learned in university for one minute. And listen to me. You are not the only person who has studied math and science around here. You are not special. The fact that the evolutionists identify specific species both extinct and living disproves the theory of evolution. THe theory is self destroying. What I am saying is that evolution thru natural selection should be a smooth linear process and identifying specific species through genetics should be theoretically impossible. The genetic code for a species should be unidentifiable say to the family level as all species are in continual evolution, right? And no I don't think the earth is 5,000 years old so don't go their. Your mind has been closed by your "education".
I case you are a diction Nazi I meant to say “don’t go there” not “don’t go their”. My bad.
The ability to plug data into spread sheets or programs for statistical analysis does not qualify a person as having an understanding of higher mathematics. That doesn't cut it.
If I recall, it was evolutionist Julian Huxley that pointed out that evolution theory had a huge flaw from a purely probabilistic viewpoint, though he remained a believer. Others have added to and reinforced his work.
Calc? You quit at the beginning, you had a long way to go.