That’s your most projectionist response thus far. You haven’t brought any facts to the table here; only opinions, and observations tenuously described as “evidence”. Furthermore, you steered this thread off topic for no reason, and are trying to justify it by self-righteousness and smugness.
Please explain how an advocate of this particular off-topic subject is utterly unfamiliar (or feigns unfamiliarity?) with its roots? The ancient Greeks were the first to come up with notions of development of one species from another and natural selection. How is it that names such as Empedocles and Anaximander do not spring to mind at once, not to mention Aristotle?
Seriously, drop it.
You cannot change the evidence by pounding me with material that you have internalized from some creationism website. You cannot convince me to just blindly disregard the evidence of evolution, especially when I work with it every day. I’ve already pointed you to some resources that explain complex scientific topics in terms that lay-people can understand. If you do not want to look at them, that is on you, not me. I have no real interest in continuing to discuss science with someone whose only interest in the topic is to try to debunk it.
Off-topic? Let me revisit: the thread started with an article discussing a poll on Americans’ attitudes towards anthropogenic global warming, the age of the earth, evolution, and the big bang. To which I commented regarding the strength of the scientific evidence supporting each subject. Then you leapt in with a lot of creationism. Thus, you diverted me from the topic of discussing the poll.
In answer to your question, “How is it that names such as Empedocles and Anaximander do not spring to mind at once, not to mention Aristotle?”, I will say that the names of what I assume are ancient Greeks whom I’ve never heard of (except for the name Aristotle) do *not* typically spring to mind, ever. However, I will say that the ancient Greeks made some important observations and hypotheses in the fields of science and mathematics—they were not stupid. Making various observations and proposing a rudimentary theory of evolution to explain them really isn’t such a big deal—that has been done by many peoples throughout history—but coming up with a rudimentary atomic theory without *any* of the instrumentation that was finally used to demonstrate it—that is pretty impressive.