[Alacarte]

People believe in evolution for a variety of reasons.

Since when did science become a multiple choice piece of information? You don't choose to 'believe' in how the natural world works. Either you understand, or you don't, period.

To steal a quip from Bill Maher. "The author isn't so sure about gravity either, he thinks it may be a plot by jews to get people to drop spare change."

[Logophile]

Since when did science become a multiple choice piece of information? You don't choose to 'believe' in how the natural world works. Either you understand, or you don't, period.

It is not quite so cut-and-dried as you suggest. The natural world is a complicated place; no scientist can be said to understand how it works in all of its complexity.

So we devise models of the real world. These models are necessarily simpler than the world they describe. We "believe" in a model only so long as it remains useful in describing and predicting the way the natural world works.

For example, for a long time we believed in the "conservation of mass," the idea that mass is neither created nor destroyed in a system. It was a useful model, and still is for many purposes. However, Einstein proposed an alternative model in which the mass of a system depends on its energy. The alternative view is more useful in some situations.