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→Evolution: creatures becoming other creatures.
::Actually what you said was that one creature turns into another. Evolutionary theory makes no such claim. Any individual is just that...an individual. Species, over time, change. You state it two different ways above. "Common understanding" of evolution, as you stated, is quite muddled, and many lay people believe that evolution implies that a chimp can somehow turn into a human...this is ''not'' what evolutionary theory says. Educating people above "common understanding" should be an important goal.[[User:JoyousOne|JoyousOne]] 09:58, 11 May 2007 (EDT)
::Actually what you said was that one creature turns into another. Evolutionary theory makes no such claim. Any individual is just that...an individual. Species, over time, change. You state it two different ways above. "Common understanding" of evolution, as you stated, is quite muddled, and many lay people believe that evolution implies that a chimp can somehow turn into a human...this is ''not'' what evolutionary theory says. Educating people above "common understanding" should be an important goal.[[User:JoyousOne|JoyousOne]] 09:58, 11 May 2007 (EDT)
:::I said, "...a creature to change into a different kind of creature...", so perhaps I wasn't clear that I wasn't talking about an individual creature. But having clarified, that, evolution ''does'' make those claims, as per the example I gave above of the dinosaurs turning (evolving) into birds. It is just my wording that is at issue, or the underlying point? [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 10:12, 11 May 2007 (EDT)