They are used as a merchandising tool, for political suasion, as legal weapons. Surveys pack smack with people. If the message is couched in something we value or admire, it s got bigger wallop and we re impressed. We aren t likely to verbalize our gullibility, but we definitely do buy by it. It is everywhere.
Evolution is complement to humanism.
It is perceived as the survey of the intellectual community. Evolution has become the lingua franca of the learned, without which an author, despite his credentials, cannot get published. The evolution hypothesis has become insiders jargon of the scholarly, the mass textbook writer and periodical writer. Writers in virtually all disciplines have latched onto Darwinism as mechanism to effectively develop their theories. The more scientifically credulous the author, the more he ll argue with daunting Darwinism.