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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
is the 38% number correct? I hope my cutting posts here showing that there are gaps haven't been the cause of the general public rejecting evolution, which is a theory Less, a strong theory, but still a theory. The scariest thing about the current right wing is the rejection of science, but they will never actually run the country. The saddest thing is the "intelligent" people who aren't really understanding the science, and that gaps do exist, and that it's okay gaps exist and write something that real educated people must find vapid on its face. Sad all around.
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The problem is "theory" to the common Fox News viewer and "theory" in scientific discourse have far different meanings. To the dim trailer trash who are excited by imbeciles like Bachmann, theory is a negative descriptive. To a scientist, in context, it is a way of describing a process the evidence supporting the existence of which is so overwhelming Dawkins is justified in arguing the thing is beyond dispute when writing to a general audience.
To the unschooled, or willfully ignorant, general public who misunderstand and abuse "theory," evolution is properly categorized as "fact."
