Mo Rocca: The challenges facing atheists in the U.S.

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6. I like the "acceptance" of evolution instead of "believe in"...

That is a better way to couch the discussion.

As the subsequent poster replied, the concept of "belief" (holding as "true" that which has no objective proof or reason for acceptance beyond desire to have it be so) is at the root of many if not all problems associated with fundamentalist zealotry.

I accept the theory of evolution for many reasons - scientific consensus, experimental evidence and personal experience with bacteria and the development of resistance and emergence of mutated strains, etc. - but I would not characterize it as "belief" in evolution.

Thank you for the link. That was exactly the studies that I had in mind.