Talk:Acceptance of evolution

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Obviously, the more edumacated you are, the more likely you are to be duped by Satan and his Liberal Minions fnord. --Gulik 15:42, 13 June 2007 (CDT)

Are these American or global figures? MiddleMan 08:28, 29 June 2007 (CDT)

Gallup did a poll regarding this recently (video summary here). Most interesting were the major reasons given for not believing in evolution, IMO:

I believe in Jesus Christ (19% of nonbelievers)
I believe in the almighty God, creator of Heaven and Earth (16%)
Due to my religion and faith (16%)
Not enough scientific evidence to prove otherwise (14%)
I believe in what I read in the Bible (12%)
I'm a Christian (9%)
Other (5%)
I don't believe humans come from beasts/monkeys (3%)
No opinion (3%)
No reason in particular (2%)

Dyskolos 11:50, 23 July 2007 (CDT)

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[edit] Orphaned pages

This page is Number one in the list of Orphaned pages for some reason. HeartGoldShow me your intolerance 19:36, 29 July 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Title

Should be "Acceptance of evolution". ħumanUser talk:Human 19:43, 12 February 2009 (EST)

[edit] I'm contemplating

making a Fun:Acceptance of Evolution syndrome that would mirror this article nicely... Neveruse513 17:30, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

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Evolution wasn't dicovered by Darwin. various evolutionary ideas had been knocking around before him. What Darwin hit upon was natural selection. Totnesmartin 17:35, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

I see your point, but perhaps we could say that the discovery of natural selection enabled Darwin, as the first, to accept evolution on what turned out to be a valid scientific basis? Or not. Delete it if you will. - Nasreddin 17:51, 21 April 2009 (EDT)
Probably not. Erasmus Darwin was already on the track with mutability of species, as were many others. Transmutation (evolution) was seen as a scientific "fact". Darwin just happened upon the naturalistic mechanism. ArmondikoVtheist 18:23, 21 April 2009 (EDT)
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