Talk:Acceptance of evolution

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This page is Number one in the list of Orphaned pages for some reason. Heart♥Gold^{Deny you're a communist} 19:36, 29 July 2007 (CDT)

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

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. ArmondikoV^bomination 18:23, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

Evidence for intraspecies speciation

Would be a useful write-up somewhere on Rationalwiki, as I know of GCSE biology teachers who contend that there is no proof of it "ever since the peppered moth findings were discredited", and that therefore "evolution is just a theory". 171.33.193.245 (talk) 17:38, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Wouldn't that be "intraspeciation"? Reverend Black Percy (talk) 22:47, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Or that, or maybe it should just be "speciation" (I'm not a biologist :( ). 171.33.193.245 (talk) 11:36, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Changing the angle slightly - how good is 'the moths case' as a theoretical example of how the process works? One can accept evolution in general (including 'species evolving in response to each other's changes and also to make full use of the variety of environments) but 'have issues' with how particular aspects work/how the complexity of organs and bodies etc develop 86.146.100.95 (talk) 13:30, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Acceptance of evolution will go down

The acceptance of evolution will go down. Religious fundamentalism is growing in the world and this trend is expected to continue. Christianity/Islam are poised for growth. See: Growth of religious fundamentalism and Religion and its projected increase in the 22nd century.

The article should have a projected future section.GiuocoPiano (talk) 06:48, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Oh, a projected future — that makes sense, just like all of the projected futures by various religions? Bongolian (talk) 07:26, 15 May 2020 (UTC)