Comments on: Retro: Best of the Blog: Concepts https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/26/retro-best-of-the-blog-concept/ Wed, 06 Dec 2017 03:55:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: CherryBomb https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/26/retro-best-of-the-blog-concept/#comment-528693 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:09:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/26/retro-best-of-the-blog-concept/#comment-528693 Well, yes and no. My point really is that people who claim to believe in evolution often don’t actually understand it any better than those who claim they don’t. Most people have a pretty superficial understanding of how evolution works, and whether they will admit it or not, they are, yes, taking it on faith.

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/26/retro-best-of-the-blog-concept/#comment-528692 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:11:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/26/retro-best-of-the-blog-concept/#comment-528692 You are preaching to the Choir…

]]> By: CherryBomb https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/26/retro-best-of-the-blog-concept/#comment-528691 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:04:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/26/retro-best-of-the-blog-concept/#comment-528691 Hehe, I never read those posts before, but you sound an awful lot like me when explain evolution to people.

The problem with understanding evolution is this: If you ask a typical (decently educated) person if he understands quantum mechanics, he will admit that no, he does not. But he is willing to accept that smart people who study it diligently DO understand it, and he is willing to believe them. Ask him about evolution though, and he will believe that he understands it intuitively, and has no need to study it. “Competition”, “Survival of the Fittest”, and he starts reasoning by analogy with the other kinds of competition he is familiar with, like sports and business.

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