"People typically have this view of evolution as being an extremely gradual process," said Dr. Barrett.
You write about cultural evolution and genetic evolution as being equal partners in the process, but culture doesn't bypass the physics and chemistry of the brain.
The very simple reason for this is that they are not: the huge weight of evidence and consensus that follows it overwhelmingly supports evolution as being the best explanation we have, and strongly rejects alternative explanations.
These three participants eventually viewed evolution as being more valid than intelligent design, but experienced varying degrees of emotional turmoil.
Most Christians worldwide, as represented by statements from their governing bodies (see later), are in fact accepting of biological evolution as being fully compatible with their faith.
Thus, students tend to think of evolution as being relevant only to the macroscopic world, with little or no connection to what happens inside cells.
Our results also revealed a significant correlation between amount of coursework in biology with acceptance and understanding of evolution, as was suggested by Southerland and Sinatra (2005).
Subject 6685 may be confusing the various mechanisms of evolution as being different kinds of evolution, may be considering including Lamarckian views, which may not view evolution as a processes of inextricably related variables.
revealed the features of their time evolution as being due to spherulite and/or flow-induced oriented crystalline formation during the elongation process.
Yet even with all of the above qualifications noted, it seems clear that acceptance of evolution as being compatible with faith is a majority, and not a minority, view among Christians (as represented by their denominations), even in the United States.
