Via one of the guest bloggers on Pharyngula comes a link to A Survey of Public Understanding of Evolution.
Go fill it in. I doubt the results will be very surprising - people who ‘believe’ in evolution tend to be better educated, more left wing and less religious than those who don’t. Survey after survey has shown this. What will be interesting to see is the answeres to the first two questions which are a little bit more in depth.
To the best of your understanding, and in your own words, please explain what “evolution” means.
To which my answer was:
The change over time of the genetic makeup of a biological population. Changes are introduced via random mutation and their frequency within the population is determined by factors including natural and sexual selection.
Not a perfect answer but I think it contains the essentials.
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…went to fill it in and got as far as the email address then pressed return by mistake and submitted it without my email address. If you’ve requested a copy of the report, can you forward it on to me when you get one?
I did, so no problems.