Expert Opinion on Evolution et al

[madnak]

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You're not a public figure attacking religion, claiming to speak for Science and making huge profits from your opinions.

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And hopefully never will be. Sounds like way too much work.

[brashbrother]

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This has been troubling me for awhile. I accept that many, maybe most, Americans don't believe in evolution. But what i don't know is, do they understand that there is a scientific consensus on the issue, based on observations of the external world, and simply reject it? (perhaps based on arguments of 'group-think' or indoctrination). Or is the general belief that the question is disputed in scientific circles?

Unfortunately, i seem to have immersed myself in a cloistered world of evolutionists, so i can't poll personally, but perhaps i can find enough creationists/ID'ers/whatever here to satisfy my curiousity...

For the purposes of this poll, let me define 'scientific consensus' as '95% of graduate-level educated scientists in the field agree' where 'field' can be loosely interpreted here as 'Biology'

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I have reposted the OP, so that you can see where I come from and why I have been concerned with the idea of definition of evolution. He did not capitalize it, nor did he say "theory of" evolution. Hoewever, if he was asking only about evolution in a gene pool, his question is silly to a scientist. Which is why I assumed the audience to be laymen, and in need of some explanation as to what evolution vs. Theory of Evolution might be. Forgive me for insulting your intelligences, since all those who have posted obviously hold some graduate degrees in the sciences.