Top Secret Atheist

The evidence is clear, as in a February 2009 Gallup Poll, taken on the eve of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birthday, that reported only 39 percent of Americans say they “believe in the theory of evolution,” while a quarter say they do not believe in the theory, and another 36…

This article gives non-believers in Evolution too much of a leg to stand on, I think, by not addressing more succinctly the ways in which we know evolution is true. It’s actually written in such a way as to greatly confuse “truth” with “evidence.” It also skips over, greatly simplifies, and states outright falsehoods (we most certainly did NOT “descend from monkeys,” to name one example. Boiling it down to minutiae over carbon dating obscures that, and leaves you open to any number of research-by-way-of-Youtube clips that obfuscate the results of, say, inconclusive carbon dating from volcanos, for example.

Evolution is true, and if you have examined the truth of it, and still don’t understand the trueness of its truth, you and I do not have much to talk about.