"Well, Ed, I had a quick look at those rather tabloidesque links you put up. I get a bit suspicious when I read about "genes evolving" (they don't: genes mutate, organisms evolve) and "evolution learning" (it doesn't: it's blind and has no goals and there's no underlying intelligence to "learn" anything). Hope you don't think I'm chucking the baby out with the bathwater and all that, but I think I'll stick to more learned sources"

Well Steve, while the (tabloidesque)articles I posted (you know, the ones you took a quick look at) were in science news articles, the journals where they were publiched were noted.

Could it be that they were not in keeping with your "scientific beliefs/opinions"?

Where have you posted links to your, so called, "learned sources"? What I have seen is mostly opinion, much like that posted by others taking an oposing position (my opinion). Not that there is anything wrong with that.

It is easy to talk the talk.