Those who say they do "believe" are no more likely to be able to be able to give a high-school-exam passing account of natural selection, genetic variance, and random mutation - the basic elements of the modern synthesis - than than those who say they "don't" believe.
#HOW DO I MOVE MEASURES IN FINALE 2014.5 PLUS#
That's just not right! Plus I have some cool new data on this issue.īut let's start with a reprise of the basics - because one can never overstate how aggressively ignored they are by those who flip out & let loose with a toxic stream of ignorance & cultural zealotry every time a polling organization announces the "startling" news that nearly 50% of the US public continues (as it has for decades) to say "no" when asked whether they believe in evolution (in addition, if one asks how many of the "believers" subscribe to a "naturalistic" or Darwinian view as opposed to a "theistic" variant, the proportion plummets down all the more- for "Democrats" as well as "Republicans" blah blah blah).įirst, there is zero correlation between saying one "believes" in evolution & understanding the rudiments of modern evolutionary science. It's been soooo long - at least 3 weeks! - since I last did a post on the relationship between "belief in evolution" & "science literacy."