After generating an initial list of key concepts, we asked evolution experts to evaluate these concepts against two criteria: 1) importance of the concept for undergraduate courses and 2) whether instructors emphasized the concept in their own teaching (Supplemental Material, Survey 1).
Why does a president who declined to defend the Defense of Marriage Act persist in the ridiculous pretense of an "evolving" position, one might reasonably ask (an evolution that will be complete, one assumes, the day he wins re-election), when same-sex marriage might actually be a political winner, and his wink-and-a-nod approach to the issue looks so transparently calculated?
Interviewer: Given the opportunity to sit down with a colleague that you trust you can tell this colleague anything maybe what you're weak in, what you'd like to be stronger in, what questions would you ask about evolution?
This allows us to ask whether evolution can allow focal populations to avoid extinction.
Regressive evolution is commonplace, and it is well worth asking why evolution has repeatedly produced eyeless species in so many different groups of organisms.
To many people, asking whether evolution is good for conservatism is like asking if gravity is good for liberalism; nature is morally neutral.
When he was asked about evolution on a trip to London in February Wisconsin's governor, Scott Walker, said, "I'm going to punt on that one".
Asked about evolution, which Ms. O'Donnell has in the past said she believes is a myth, she said that what she believed was "irrelevant".
Which could explain why, when I went back and looked through the rest of PPP's polls from this year, I couldn't find any other states that were asked about evolution.
