No one should believe in evolution!

[scott777]

I am of the firm opinion that no one should ever believe in evolution. Belief is based of placing faith in something. Evolution is a scientific theory. No should ever accept a scientific theory by faith. One can believe in many things properly, such as the innate value of people, or that your favorite sports team is the greatest. But scientific theories aren’t like those. Scientific theories can be accepted as correct, or assented to, or tested and verified, or a host of other empirical and scientific actions. But to believe in a scientific theory is an oxymoron.

Whenever I encounter someone that says they believe in evolution I roll my eyes metaphorically and think to myself that here is someone that lacks a genuine understanding of evolution and science.

I will now don my asbestos suit and await comments.

I would agree that no one should accept a scientific theory by faith. But scientists and logically minded people don't usually accept evolution as a certainty. It's the best theory that exists for the diversity of life.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Entomology...what specialty?

My graduate work was in field crops, but I have worked on insecticide resistance, transgenics, toxicology, bioassay development and rearing as well. My personal interest is in the natural history of beetles, especially those in the Scarabaeoidea.

 

[Audie]

My graduate work was in field crops, but I have worked on insecticide resistance, transgenics, toxicology, bioassay development and rearing as well. My personal interest is in the natural history of beetles, especially those in the Scarabaeoidea.

At one time I was going to be an aquatic entomologist, but
I was talked out of it.

Went another route, not science at all, that really
is more suited to who I am.

Can you see me doing sleeping sickness vectors
on the upper stretches of great greygreen
greasy Limpopo River, a 98 lb Asian city girl?

 

[Audie]

My graduate work was in field crops, but I have worked on insecticide resistance, transgenics, toxicology, bioassay development and rearing as well. My personal interest is in the natural history of beetles, especially those in the Scarabaeoidea.

Dung beetles?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Dung beetles?

Among other groups, yes. Passalid beetles, stage beetles, May and June beetles, and a lot of scarab species that are either minor pollinators, ant and small mammal commensals, or saproxylic.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

At one time I was going to be an aquatic entomologist, but
I was talked out of it.

Went another route, not science at all, that really
is more suited to who I am.

Can you see me doing sleeping sickness vectors
on the upper stretches of great greygreen
greasy Limpopo River, a 98 lb Asian city girl?

Really interesting. That's a big area in entomology. I know several specialists and was going to do my masters under one of the leading aquatic heteropterists many years ago, but it came down to money and the field crops guy had lots of it.

I know a few Thai aquatic entomologists that probably don't run much more than 98 lbs if that. What field are you in now?

Disease vectors is, from an unfortunate practical sense, a growing field of study. With increasingly warmer temperatures, parasites formerly limited to tropical and subtropical regions are expanding their range.