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1. 1. 1oldsarg 9:15 pm 11/21/2011

   You’re preaching to the choir, Bora. I seriously doubt that anyone who reads this site is a Creationist.

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2. 2. Bora Zivkovic 10:11 pm 11/21/2011

   You’d be surprised – they show up in the comments on our articles all the time.

   But choir is the intended audience – I posted it here, a relatively visible place, so readers can take it and post it everywhere, e.g., on facebook, G+, Twitter, mailing lists, their own blogs etc. which are places that are visited by all sorts of friends, colleagues and family, many of whom are not scientists, and some of whom may be uninformed (the paid Creationist activists will not change and are never the target of these campaigns anyway).

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3. 3. Meadster 2:52 pm 11/22/2011

   Thanks for this post..as a Middle & High School Bio teacher I have been harping on the value of understanding evolution for the past 20 years. Sadly, many of the influences in the “mainstream” media seem to be either anti-science (at worst) or science ignorant (most of the time. Today’s youth need to get the message of the value of evolution much more often than they hear it now. The one area they SHOULD get it (Bio Classes) has become a place where many (> 40%) teachers avoid the topic or water it down to avoid “controversy” or because they themselves do not “believe” in evolution.

   Bora, Thanks for sharing this as I know I’ll be using when I delve into evolution ( both from a population and a molecular perspective)with my 6th and 9th graders later this school year!

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4. 4. Bora Zivkovic 3:42 pm 11/22/2011

   Thank you!

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