Correcting Misperceptions About Evolution 838
Beagle writes "The science of evolution is often misunderstood by the public and a session at the recent AAAS meeting in Boston covered three frequently misapprehended topics in evolutionary history, the Cambrian explosion, origin of tetrapods, and evolution of human ancestors, as well as the origin of life. The final speaker, Martin Storksdieck of the Institute for Learning Innovation, covered how to communicate the data to a public that 'has such a hard time accepting what science is discovering.' His view: 'while most of the attention has focused on childhood education, we really should be going after the parents. Everyone is a lifelong learner, Storksdieck said, but once people leave school, that learning becomes a voluntary matter that's largely driven by individual taste.'"
Re:Not everyone is a lifelong learner... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Everyone is a lifelong learner" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not everyone is a lifelong learner... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I ran into this with my roommate yesterday (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not everyone is a lifelong learner... (Score:5, Funny)
And after that, could we review the difference between comedians and mathematicians?
Ahh... evolution... (Score:2, Funny)
His view:...Storksdieck
Ancestor of a Dinosaur's dick?Re:Not everyone is a lifelong learner... (Score:2, Funny)
Uhhhhh.... but ID doesn't have any evidence at all.
Hmmmm, I intended to disagree with you and mock you, but now that I think about it realize I you were actually sort of right. ID is indeed extremely controversial exactly because of the implication of it not having any evidence.
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Re:I ran into this with my roommate yesterday (Score:1, Funny)
I'll come in again (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Origin of life ?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:God and evolution both exist. (Score:3, Funny)
Yup just like every fish needs a bicycle.
Re:Origin of life ?! (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, wait...
Re:Origin of life ?! (Score:3, Funny)
Well, surely God must love us if He went through all the trouble of restoring a whole universe from backup 6000 years ago
Give the man upstairs some credit (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Actually, that's sort of a cop out. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Slavery still here. (Score:2, Funny)
It's too late, most have already migrated (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Actually, that's sort of a cop out. (Score:2, Funny)
That would be so cool!