[Boogieman]

“nearly 40 percent of Americans reject the overwhelming scientific evidence for evolution”

If something has “overwhelming scientific evidence”, you shouldn’t care whether people accept or reject it. Nobody cares if laymen believe in gravity, or electricity, or quantum physics, etc. The only things they really worry about convincing the yokels about are things that carry a political agenda.

[Gingersnap]

"If something has “overwhelming scientific evidence”, you shouldn’t care whether people accept or reject it. Nobody cares if laymen believe in gravity, or electricity, or quantum physics, etc. The only things they really worry about convincing the yokels about are things that carry a political agenda."

Bingo.

I worked in a very "sciency" science all my life and the issue never came up. Evolution as currently presented is only relevant in a very narrow group of studies. The bulk of scientific inquiry and development is concerned with nature as it is at this moment since that's what we have to deal with daily.

The idea that you have to uncritically accept this theory in order to master enough science to save a life, fly to Mars, or work in theoretical math or physics is absurd. Heck, you don't need it to identify and classify ancient organisms.

[Louis Foxwell]

If something has “overwhelming scientific evidence”, you shouldn’t care whether people accept or reject it. Nobody cares if laymen believe in gravity, or electricity, or quantum physics, etc. The only things they really worry about convincing the yokels about are things that carry a political agenda.

Absolutely correct. macroevolution conflicts with the real world. Complexity does not occur gradually. There are not a series of steps involved in the development of te human brain, or a genome. The complexity must be in place from its inception for the complex to exist.

The components of a double helix cannot exist in isolation or by gradual development. They are interdependent for their existence. Children understand this because they look at the world. Ideologues do not look at the world, only at their fantasies.

[Louis Foxwell]

If something has “overwhelming scientific evidence”, you shouldn’t care whether people accept or reject it. Nobody cares if laymen believe in gravity, or electricity, or quantum physics, etc. The only things they really worry about convincing the yokels about are things that carry a political agenda.

Absolutely correct. macroevolution conflicts with the real world. Complexity does not occur gradually. There are not a series of steps involved in the development of te human brain, or a genome. The complexity must be in place from its inception for the complex to exist.

The components of a double helix cannot exist in isolation or by gradual development. They are interdependent for their existence. Children understand this because they look at the world. Ideologues do not look at the world, only at their fantasies.