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To: average joe who wrote (21274)	2/17/2012 9:48:44 PM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Respond to of 69300

He made Tsakiris look like the idiot he is! "I think, as Dawkins repeatedly emphasized, understanding evolution makes you see the world in not only a very different way but a lot better and more fulfilling way. So if you want that to happen you sort of have to get involved in popularizing evolution and combatting the most common alternative to evolution which is the various forms of Creationism. So I guess I started talking about that in public and then I guess my real status as an opponent was a book I wrote called, Why Evolution is True. It came out three years ago. It’s not a very contentious book. It just lists in an non-confrontational way the reasons scientists accept the fact of evolution and going through all the various lines of evidence and stuff. That’s not really a controversial book. It’s no more controversial than a physics book would be, given the events for atoms or a medicine book would be giving the evidence that germs cause disease. But of course it’s a lightning rod for Creationists, somebody who wants to attack or try to debunk it. I also write a website which gives evidence for evolution with the same title as my book. I guess whatever prominence I have has come from these sorts of public outreach efforts which originally began to try to get Americans to change their minds about evolution being a lie or a conspiracy or whatever they think, the ones who oppose it."