
Acquiring Talking Points
September 22, 2008So, Bora suggested I go here to get some talking points for the next time I’m confronted with a creationist while carrying on my everyday life. I’ve started reading the Introduction to Evolutionary Biology FAQ which is pretty detailed. It might even be a little too detailed, depending on who the target audience is. It actually tells you how to calculate linkage disequilibrium and allele frequencies and when I saw the words Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, I started having bad flashbacks to the population genetics section of my genetics classes. Not pretty. I’m not sure how a layperson would react to this introduction but it’s at the right level for me. I think if it were to be geared toward laypeople, it would have to be simplified a bit and shortened. I’m not sure how many laypeople care enough about evolutionary theory to read a 30 page introduction. Though, I suppose you don’t end up at that particular site, reading that FAQ, unless you have an interest in learning more about evolution.