To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (21187 ) 2/12/2012 1:13:56 PM From: Solon Read Replies (1) | Respond to "Then when they present the fruits of their efforts to the lay public, they tend to delight in the complex details and linger lovingly over each and every one, making for a presentation which impresses their colleagues but confuses everyone else. Your average creationist, however, neither understands nor cares to understand such minutia. From his perspective, you are just trying to beat him down with technical jargon. So if we want to turn things around, we have to find away to talk to such people in terms they find persuasive , rather than according to the professional rules we love so much.The problem we face with the creationism case is that we already have excellent arguments for evolution—indeed, knock-down, drag-out good arguments. The problem is not that there is real debate among objective experts about whether our arguments are good. In short, the problem is not with the quality of the arguments, but with the public perception of the quality of the arguments, which is a very different thing. in 2005, 54% of Americans did not believe humans evolved from earlier species, up from 46% in 1994."
