pete
interesting that the article stringsinger posted on tracing man and woman back was described or called a "creed" project whose "high priest" set out to disprove the garden of eden story-or words to that effect

I don't normally take much notice of anything pete says, but here he has hit on an important point. It illustrates the popular idea of evolution as a sort of pseudo religion and how bad science plays into the hands of the creationists. When I described the article as being "a fairly sloppy piece of popular science jounalism", I think I was being generous. It was published in Intelligent Life magazine which says of itself -

Intelligent Life is a bi-monthly lifestyle and culture magazine from The Economist. It covers the arts, style, food, wine, cars, travel and anything else under the sun, as long as it's interesting. It shares The Economist's fondness for crisp prose, dry wit and free thinking. But rather than covering politics and economics, it is about life in general and making the most of your time off, from tailoring to museums, hotels to philanthropy, choosing wine to going green. http://moreintelligentlife.com/

It is not a peer reviewed science journal.

According to Wikipedia, its author J.M.Ledgard "has also been a correspondent for The Economist since 1995, specialising in foreign political and war reporting." I'm sure he is a very clever chap and a very good journalist but he is not a scientist.

Promoting this distorted view of science is what makes me get so exercised about self-proclaimed scientists who come out with lines like "Evolution is true."

I've said it before and I will probably have to say it again, "You can't defeat creatoinism with bad science."