Re: Teaching Evolution In Schools

In message <1175186923.098707.26580@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Chua <ichua@xxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Mar 29, 11:09 am, richardalanforr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 29, 3:13 pm, "Ian Chua" <i...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For some reason, I can only create new post and can't respond to
> postings in any Google Group....so here goes:

> It is always good to teach children how to think. But science
> textbooks make evolution appear as a fairy tale. There is also too
> much proliferation of unhelpful websites which simply say there are
> unequivocal evidence for evolution but such evidence is never
> provided. I have done a literature search at my university library to
> review the evidence for evolution but came up with a formidable llist
> of more than 40,000 journal references. Unfortunately all the
> abstracts I read so far only deals with micro-evolution.

I simply don't believe you.

The scientific literature contains many references to speciation, and
there are numerous papers describing such events. This is
macroevolution by the definition scientist use. Furthermore, you will
also find numerous papers dealing with evolution at larger scales
which present evidence. A google scholar search on "macroevolution"
brings up 5880 references.

How did you manage to miss all these papers in your search of a
University library, which should contain many not available on public
web sites?

> Why is the
> "evidence" so illusive?

It took me about 20 seconds to find 5880 references.
I don't call this either ellusive of illusive.

Google searches don't produce results that are all references to
journal papers.
It was probably faster at my library.... I think it took less than 30
secs to yield
over 40,000 results with different keywords. It is scanning through
all the
abstracts that is a big task. Hence, my appeal for help.

http://www.google.com/advanced_scholar_search
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

.

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