Creationism and Ignorance

[FatAndFaithless]

Anom, what definition would you use if someone asked you to define evolution?  Without spending paragraphs outlining every specific, "changes in allele frequency over time" is a pretty darn good starting point.  And changes in allele frequency + time = speciation.  if that were the definition that was popularized, I think we'd be in a hell of a lot better position than half the country thinking evolution means "your granddad was a monkey" or some shit like that.  "Changes in allele frequency over time" isn't incorrect, and it's not misleading.

But it's too narrow a term and leaves out much

So I'll ask you the same question.  If someone asked you to define evolution, what would you say?

And what exactly does it "leave out"? It's easy to throw a link to a 50 pages scientific paper that dives into every specific of the theory (that nobody will read, especially if they don't accept evolution to begin with), but if someone just ask you, Tiz, face to face, to "define evolution", what would you say?