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Acquiring Talking Points

September 22, 2008

So, 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.

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