I find this thread and the commentary on it amusing. First the survey question "Is evolution well-supported by evidence and widely accepted within the scientific community?" If that was really the survey question then all you can really conclude is that Newsweak has a really lousy survey designer working with them. Here's a better way to do it. Question 1) Is evolution well-supported by evidence? Question 2) Is evolution widely accepted with the scientific community? It is perfectly feasible to answer no to question 1 and yes to question 2. All it requires is a belief that the evidence does not support evolution very well and that most scientists are wrong about believing it. I'm surprised that the self-congratulatory people that frequent Slashdot missed this elementary error on Newsweak's part. Or perhaps it wasn't an error. Maybe they were after circulation rather than a deep probe of the issue.
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I find this thread and the commentary on it amusing. First the survey question "Is evolution well-supported by evidence and widely accepted within the scientific community?" If that was really the survey question then all you can really conclude is that Newsweak has a really lousy survey designer working with them. Here's a better way to do it. Question 1) Is evolution well-supported by evidence? Question 2) Is evolution widely accepted with the scientific community? It is perfectly feasible to answer no to question 1 and yes to question 2. All it requires is a belief that the evidence does not support evolution very well and that most scientists are wrong about believing it. I'm surprised that the self-congratulatory people that frequent Slashdot missed this elementary error on Newsweak's part. Or perhaps it wasn't an error. Maybe they were after circulation rather than a deep probe of the issue.