Stu
Apologies Snail. None of that was aimed at you
Obviously I was misled by the fact that you based that post on a quote from me and mentioned me by name.

That said, evolution isn't a religion but a fact.
So you totally reject the opinion of the Coalition of Scientific Societies that it is a scientific concept?

This is part of an OU undergrad degree course and a serious data-gathering exercise,
I don't think so. I have done OU undergraduate courses and they never spoke to me like that. If you dig into the site you will find documents like this pdf which give a clearer idea of the intended audience.

and I'm sure many scientists would be happy to work with data such as those being generated by this project.
Perhaps they would but I hope they would analyse the data and draw conclusions from it rather than starting from the answer and then looking for supporting evidence.

What would satisfy you as a being a "direct observation of evolution".
I have no idea. I don't know how you can have a direct observation of a scientific concept which is a product of the human mind trying to make sense of the empirical evidence which can be directly observed. You're the one who says its a fact. Steve, rather confusingly, says both that it is true and that it exists. Over to you.