Sentence examples for a misunderstanding of evolution from inspiring English sources

He argues that the papal ban on artificial contraception is based on a misunderstanding of evolution.

Her piece revealed, in good old equal-time fashion, as bad a misunderstanding of evolution from the left as from the right.

Several studies (e.g., Alters and Nelson [2002]; Sinclair et al. [1997]) show that "…adults' views on evolution are remarkably impervious to instruction" (Chinsamy and Plagányi [2008]), and many demonstrate that religious beliefs often lead to a misunderstanding of evolution (Meadows et al. [2000]; Winslow et al. [2011]).

Zuk puts it well here: "The notion that humans got to a point in evolutionary history when their bodies were somehow in sync with the environment, and that sometime later we went astray from those roots – whether because of the advent of agriculture, the invention of the bow and arrow, or the availably of the hamburger – reflects a misunderstanding of evolution.

This attitude betrays a misunderstanding of devolution.

Teleology of this kind has been mistakenly conflated with the adaptive process of natural selection and is a common misunderstanding of evolution that still persists.

Commonly made arguments that there are no transitional fossils and that there are no examples of macroevolution (see Mead 2009 for a thorough discussion of common misconceptions of evolution and the fossil record) show a significant misunderstanding of evolution in geologic time.

Nor is the problem of gross misunderstanding of evolution confined to the political right, with its conservative religious underpinnings.

The misunderstanding of evolution may be traced to two distinct, but possibly related, features: (1) belief that evolution contradicts the Bible and goes against faith or (2) a lack of understanding of the nature of science.

The broader point is that invoking the Second Law of Thermodynamics as an argument against evolution reveals a misunderstanding of both the scope of this particular law and of the meaning of "law" in science generally.

We believe that this is a misunderstanding of science that erects unnecessary barriers to the acceptance of evolution that teachers should be aware of and which they can mitigate.