{"id":1828,"date":"2013-02-12T07:27:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2013-02-12T07:27:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:27:12","slug":"evolution-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1828","title":{"rendered":"Evolution lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Citizens for Science vice-president Jonathan Smith once again pens a newspaper column, this time honoring Darwin Day with a lesson about evidences for evolution all around us: See Evolution Evidence in Daily Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a society, we remain ambivalent toward the subject, not realizing that trying to equate Darwin with our modern-day understanding of evolution is rather like associating the Wright brothers to space flight.<\/p>\n

If, as a nation, we wish to compete in a rapidly advancing technological world arena, we should take note of the advice offered by Darwin: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”<\/p>\n

In America, the time for that change is long overdue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida Citizens for Science vice-president Jonathan Smith once again pens a newspaper column, this time honoring Darwin Day with a lesson about evidences for evolution all around us: See Evolution Evidence in Daily Life. 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