Saturday, January 3, 2009, 11:00am
The following list represents widely held beliefs, either first order beliefs (things you hear people say) or second order beliefs (things implied directly by what people say):
- Evolution is very slow.
- It takes millions of years for a species to evolve into another species.
- Evolution has stopped for humans.
- Evolution occurs over "geological time scales."
- Geological time scales are very long ... millions of years.
- Geological and evolutionary time scales are similar to each other.
- Evolution = Natural Selection.
- "Macro evolution" is slow, "Micro evolution" is fast but tiny. Or whatever.