Evolution 101-part 1: Definition FAIL

Evolution 101 (Of Wolves and Cabbages)

A Critical Review and some snarky comments by Rent A Friend 2000

Original material from  http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_02  The site is called Evolution 101, and will be presented by me with no editing (though plenty of editorials) and in those few places where parts were cut out for brevity, I make note of it being done. The original site is a collaborative project of the University of California Museum of Paleontology and the National Center for Science Education. Their words will appear in normal font. My words in BOLD.

Very simply put, I decided one day to read up on the basics of evolution, and so I googled “Icons of Evolution for Highschoolers.” One of the top search results was this web site which calls itself Evolution 101. I saw the URL, evolution.berkley.edu, and decided that I probably could not pick a better representative of the evolutionary sciences. When I saw the material before me was also due in part to the University of California Museum of Paleontology and the National Center for Science Education, I was certain of it.

This was the evolutionary sciences right from the people who really seem to believe it with all of their little hearts. This was not a version of evolution written by some Young Earth Creationists group, this was made by the people who make a monkey shaped cake every Darwin day, and string lights up on their phylogenic trees while singing carols to random chance mutations. This is where I would learn what evolution really had to offer.