Comment by Tom Holm on May 28, 2012 at 11:30am

I read this article a couple days ago and its really exciting news, though as we know most still will not acceppt it even with the irrefutable evidence we obtain even today. Le sigh I guess we will have to wait and see what happens in the next 15 to 30 years

Comment by matt.clerke on May 28, 2012 at 7:12pm

I don't like this article... it gives the doubters another reason to doubt. It actually reads like the current evidence isn't enough to convince everyone. IMO the only reason some people haven't accepted evolution is that their religion says that's not how things happened.

Comment by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on May 28, 2012 at 7:30pm

The only people who do not realise that Evolution is a fact - that is 100% proven and with the full consensus of mainstream science behind it – are those who do not understand it/They have not studied it or been taught it properly so they that it is a matter of belief rather than one of understanding. It is only creationists who wish to debate it because it ruins the myth of their creation stories. Short Video

Comment by Becky Glynn on May 28, 2012 at 9:26pm

True Reg, and yet, these people make laws that affect all of us - with their sheer ignorance.

Comment by Logicallunatic on May 29, 2012 at 12:08am

I have just left this over at Dawkins.net, on the same article:

The idea that there will be some kind of mass acceptance of evolution in 15 to 30 years seems very doubtful. These people don't understand what evidence is. That is the key for me. Further, they are not schooled in critical thought or in the scientific method. Acceptance may improve slightly but as long as parents indoctrinate the next generation with anti-science garbage, it's going to take some time. So we don't need them. It would be nice of course if they came around sooner, but I think it's an irrational optimism.

Comment by Nate Lundgren on May 29, 2012 at 1:53am

The main reason that I think creationism is even still around is because the money is following the stupid. Once it pays and sells better to be an atheist storyteller/teacher than a religious one, you will see a mass exodus from churches etc. Until people start to vote with their wallets, not much will change quickly. Just my opinion with no facts but some good guesswork to back it up hahahaha :P

Comment by archaeopteryx on May 29, 2012 at 2:22am

I read recently that the Pope finally admitted belief in the Big Bang, but maintains that GodDidIt, which is quite an improvement over nearly burning Gallileo a few hundred years ago for saying the earth revolved around the sun, not vice versa.

I believe that those who control organized religion - and by that, I certainly don't mean all of the loose-cannon bible-thumpers - realize that if they get TOO far removed from reality in their claims, they're likely to start losing their audience. Like the word or not, they know that they too, have to evolve.

Comment by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on May 29, 2012 at 4:20am

....even if it did take the papacy over 350 years to admit that they were wrong in condemming Galileo.....

Comment by archaeopteryx on May 29, 2012 at 4:52am

That's certainly bad enough, but did you notice, that in this day and age, when Man has already been to the moon, that it took a 13-year investigation to reach that conclusion?!!!

Comment by Helen Pluckrose on May 29, 2012 at 5:45am

If creationists were going to be convinced by evidence, you'd think they would have been already. The problem is not that the evidence for evolution is not already strong enough for them to accept but that they refuse to look at it. Just go onto Yahoo Answers, Religion and Spirituality and you will find the same 'questions' from creationists over and over again asking how we can have evolved from monkeys when there are still monkeys and how evolution could possibly have produced the complex eye or moral values or intellectual thought and claiming that evolution is either all about random chance or some kind of sentient magic. It does not matter how many of us provide short, easily accessible information about our shared ancestor with other apes, the evolution of the eye, morality and human brain or the process of evolution having nothing to do with either chance or magic and everything to do with environment,  the same questions keep coming even from the same people. Its very depressing. However, there does seem to be a slow change in attitude in America with more young people questioning creationism and God and this is what will make the difference much more than the strength of the evidence. We have only 7% creationists in the UK and I think this is because our theists tend to be less fundamentalist that Americans and more open to scientific evidence despite the fact we still have Christian teaching in schools.

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