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According to the link below, over 700 scientists named Steve support evolution. Such lists are useless. This list of 600 isn't even news, and is quite an old list. Few of the scientists on it are even involved in the biological sciences.

Finally, the Theory of Evolution isn't a popularity contest.

http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/meter.html

Finally, the Theory of Evolution isn't a popularity contest.

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the·o·ry Audio pronunciation of "theory" ( P )
Pronunciation Key (th-r, thîr)
n. pl. the·o·ries

1. A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.

2. The branch of a science or art consisting of its explanatory statements, accepted principles, and methods of analysis, as opposed to practice: a fine musician who had never studied theory.

3. A set of theorems that constitute a systematic view of a branch of mathematics.

4. Abstract reasoning; speculation: a decision based on experience rather than theory.

5. A belief or principle that guides action or assists comprehension or judgment: staked out the house on the theory that criminals usually return to the scene of the crime.

6. An assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a conjecture.(This this really what ToE is)

According to the link below, over 700 scientists named Steve support evolution. Such lists are useless. This list of 600 isn't even news, and is quite an old list. Few of the scientists on it are even involved in the biological sciences.

Finally, the Theory of Evolution isn't a popularity contest.

The two lists are pretty obviously different in intent.

The point of the first is that being a skeptic about certain aspects of Darwin's theory of evolution primarily through natural selection does not equate to being anti-science or scientifically inept.

The point of the second is to ridicule the first.

Whether or not either succeeds in their fulfilling their respective intentions, it's clear that one cannot legitimately judge the two lists by the same standards since their goals are so different.