"So I think one of the most surprising findings has to do with the relationship between understanding the basics of evolutionary theory and accepting it as our best account of the origins of human life. So most people, I think, [or] in particular scientists, tend to think that if people reject evolution and in particular evolution by natural selection, it's because they don't understand it very well; they don't really understand what the theory is telling us. But in fact, if you look at the data from psychology and education, what you find is either no correlation between accepting evolution and understanding it or very, very small correlation between those two factors, and I think that's surprising to a lot of people and in particular to educators and scientists."
As much as you'd like the above words to be my personal unsupported statement, those are the words of Tania Lombrozo, Harvard PhD, in an interview in Scientific American.
scientificamerican.com scientific pubication.
Her meaning seems very clear to me.
Lombrozo herself is an evolutionist and is critical of both creationism and ID btw.
I find it interesting that Lombrozo says "..scientists, tend to think that if people reject evolution and in particular evolution by natural selection, it's because they don't understand it very well; they don't really understand what the theory is telling us." And that happens to be precisely the case with you. You think exactly as she said scientists typically do and apparently can't believe otherwise. |
