[papertyger]

But my larger point is that almost no evolution "supporters" have any more knowledge of the subject than I do,,

VERY perceptive of you.

I have a standing challenge to any advocate of evolution to watch "Dragons: a fantasy made real" and tell me what, beside any overt admissions in the faux-documentary, lets you know this is fiction as opposed to the Discovery Channel's normal "science" fare?

The fact is most "scientifically literate" laymen are no more informed than those who listened to Orson Well's "War of the Worlds."

[Trailerpark Badass]

The thing is, my intelligence, as determined from every available metric, put me in the upper 5% of US schoolchildren. I went to very good private schools, and yet, I took only 2 Biology classes in my life.

I know full well I could understand a theory of evolution as well as I can understand the "law" of gravity: "throw something up, and it will fall down;" but no one can put it like that that.

"Natural selection," "Survival of the fittest?" Yeah, I know what those those purport to mean, but it's the not just the mechanics of it, how is that even observable? Biology is not geology.