Survey after survey shows that Americans largely do not believe that last meaning of "evolution" is correct. But public (government) schools, from elementary to university level, uniformly teach that it is correct.
Both public schools and government are committed to avoid supporting any view whatsoever that involves God, so their options are severely limited. There's only one theory about the origin of life that doesn't involve God at all, and that is evolution (see the third meaning of this word, macro-evolution, in yesterday's post).
Here's how it works. Offspring retain the characteristics of their parents almost entirely, but random small variations can occur. Among all the offspring, if an individual has an advantageous variation, then that individual may have more offspring bearing the inherited advantage. Over time, the species evolves in that direction, resulting in new life forms.
It's called natural selection. The individuals in every generation who survive to reproduce were the most fit to survive and reproduce. Nobody disagrees with this!
There is only disagreement with the claim that this process alone produced all life's diversity: whales, spiders, palm trees, cats, tulips, dinosaurs, butterflies, wolves, roses, salmon, worms, moss, etc., etc.
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