Thursday, 15 November 2007
The Law of Evolution
Heres an interesting article about how to tackle the abuse of language by creationists. In a nutshell the author suggests scientists should stop using the word "theory" as in "Theory of Evolution" as most people mistakenly believe the word means something akin to "Hunch". Of course in every day life it does, but not in the scientific context and it is this gap in understanding which allows creationist to get away with so much bullshit. To overcome this the article suggests scientists should replace the word "Theory" with "Law" in common parlance, after all, who would argue with the "Law of Evolution"...