Wow. Wow! I post a few fairly well know points about evolution as a safe first diary on Daily Kos, and go make breakfast. I come back, and it is at the top of the Recommended Diaries list and hundreds of comments and votes are rolling in. Thank you all for your recommendations, comments and questions. A very warm welcome.
There were so many excellent comments, questions and quibbles that I simply could not respond to even a decent fraction of them. So, before I go on to the more provocative thoughts about evolution I was planning to write about today, I decided to spend today's diary on responding to some of the comments from yesterday.
Specifically, there was a great deal of discussion on the use of the words fact and theory, and the differences between the vernacular and scientific meanings of these words. Yesterday I decided against offering specific definition for many of these words, simply because I wasn't sure the readership would stand for a list of definitions. Looking through the comments, it is clear I was mistaken. Today I try to rectify that before going on to less prosaic matters.
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