Republicans growing more skeptical about evolution

[RainDog]

40. This sounds like something you heard from a religious speaker

But the truth is that evolution has been tested, observed, and reproduced over and over again in various species. Fruit flies, for instance, with their short life spans are one example.

Read "Why Evolution is True" by Jerry Coyne, to see the many ways evolution has been tested and passed muster.

It's true that the 19th c. was an era with a lot of racism across the western world, but that doesn't make a science invalid that has been tested, reproduced, observed, peer-reviewed and, also refined over more than a 100 years.

Evolutionary biology has been the source to demonstrate that race is a cultural concept, not a biological one. There is more genetic variation between people whose ancestors originated in the same areas than there is between those that have been viewed as a "race" in the past.

Darwin wrote about evolution but didn't understand the processes behind it. Mendel studied genetic inheritance with plants and provided a window into how traits are reproduced. The study of DNA indicated how mutation and variation occur.

Sadly, too many religious leaders are too invested in false teachings to admit their insistence on literalism is just plain wrong. Those religious teachers are doing a disservice to everyone in this nation with such false teachings.