Fortunately, that is a problem that is eminently solvable. Start with Jerry Coyne’s “Why Evolution is True” and Richard Dawkins’ “The Greatest Show on Earth” (two overviews of the convergent multiple lines of evidence for evolution). For more detail about the two most crucial lines of evidence, fossils and the DNA record, see (respectively) Donald Prothero’s “Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters” and Sean B. Carroll’s “The Making of the Fittest”. Those four books will get you up to speed.If you prefer to do your studying on-line, a couple of good places to start are UC Berkeley’s class “Evolution 101” at http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01 and Douglas Theobald’s long paper “29+ Evidences for Macroevolution: The Scientific Case for Common Descent” at http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
HabaneroBuck about 10 years ago
The one on the left looks like this Greek guy I know.
Dtroutma about 10 years ago
^and radical conservatives have yet to evolve.
markjoseph125 about 10 years ago
There is a lot I don’t know about Evolution.
Fortunately, that is a problem that is eminently solvable. Start with Jerry Coyne’s “Why Evolution is True” and Richard Dawkins’ “The Greatest Show on Earth” (two overviews of the convergent multiple lines of evidence for evolution). For more detail about the two most crucial lines of evidence, fossils and the DNA record, see (respectively) Donald Prothero’s “Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters” and Sean B. Carroll’s “The Making of the Fittest”. Those four books will get you up to speed.If you prefer to do your studying on-line, a couple of good places to start are UC Berkeley’s class “Evolution 101” at http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01 and Douglas Theobald’s long paper “29+ Evidences for Macroevolution: The Scientific Case for Common Descent” at http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
Happy studying!
bernardgarner about 10 years ago
Maybe he believes in evolution rather than some big guy up in the sky watching over us.
KZ71 almost 10 years ago
Sigh… going back through the archives, I thought Bennett was a good cartoonist, but this is utterly insulting and I’ve had quite enough. Goodbye.