Muawiyah is not required to know anything about "evolution". On the other hand, he does recognize a "political scientist" when he encounters one.
Now, tell me why you are defending this Futuyama so vigorously? Certainly he's a big boy ~ even publishes books denouncing fundies ~ certainly gotta' be world's smartest man to do that.
962 posted on 09/15/2006 7:26:50 PM PDT by muawiyah
Futuyma is considered an authority on evolution by the community of biologists: yes or no.
Ernst Mayr is considered an authority on evolution by the community of biologists: yes or no.
Helena Curtis and N. Sue Barnes are authors of a biology textbook: yes or no.
All of these people have used the word "change" as a rough synonym for evolution (for example: In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change... or Evolution in sexually reproducing organisms consists of genetic changes from generation to generation in populations... or evolution can be precisely defined as any change in the frequency of alleles within a gene pool from one generation to the next.): yes or no.
Muawiyah has said:(NOWHERE is anyone, not even biologists, using the word "evolve" to mean the word "change.): yes or no.
Muawiyah knows more about evolution than Futuyma: yes or no.
Muawiyah knows more about evolution than Helena Curtis and N. Sue Barnes: yes or no.
Muawiyah knows more about evolution than Ernst Mayr: yes or no.
975 posted on 09/16/2006 3:23:48 AM PDT by js1138
(Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")