Re: [Phys-l] Is evolution something to believe in?

[<cparker@charter.net>]

For nearly all non scientists and I would suggest very many k - 12 teachers who support the idea of evolution most certainly do "believe in evolution".  They simply do not know enough to do otherwise.  Maybe as I think about it now what they really do is believe in scientists.  What we tell them must be true, after all we are scientists.  We do little in school or otherwise to encourage the masses to beleive based on evidence we simply ask them to beleive in science.  How do we fix this problem?

Cliff Parker


---- Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@mindspring.com> wrote: 
> It's not the word "believe" by itself, but the phrase "believe in" 
> that carries the baggage. I can "believe" something, based on the 
> evidence, and subject to change when new evidence comes in, but if I 
> "believe in" something, there seems to be an implication of an 
> attachment to the idea that is more than just evidence-based.
>
> Hugh
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