ext_4493 ([identity profile] pbristow.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] dreamer_easy 2009-02-23 03:28 pm (UTC)

The question, of course, is sloppily phrased in a way that leads people who see evolution as *part* of the explanation (which of course is all it was ever meant to be! And no, I'm not talking about "God had a hand it in too"; I mean that the theory of evolution addresses *only* the diversification of biological species, not the origins of life itself, nor the origins of DNA and the genetic code, nor the origins of sentience or morality or spirituality or haiku or sudoku...) and are precise in their answers to say "no". Of course a simple "no" isn't offered as a legitimate answer, except in the form of "completely disagree", which is likely to be read (incorrectly) as "these folks don't believe in evolution!". So folks like me, in order to indicate the nearest approximation to what we actually think, have a choice of "Mostly agree", "mostly disagree", or "don't know/refused", depending on our best guess as to how the interpreter of the data is going to construe each of those answers... =:o\

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