Future of Christianity in US

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So even smart and educated people can have trouble understanding evolution unless they make a special effort.

I really don't think it's that hard to understand. There are countless easy-to-understand explanations out there. Out of curiosity, is your sister a member of a religious denomination that doesn't accept evolution?


I'm not sure how one can be suspicious abotu "macroevolution" when it's not a real scientific term.

My sister grew-up as an Episcopalian and now she is a Lutheran. I think she believes that evolution happened with God's help instead of totally trial and error. She got her BS in biology from MIT, so she is very smart (IMO). I think she simply has never been very interested in evolution. She worked on genetic engineering for a while, so she should be far better equipped than me to understand evolution if she tried.