If someone asks, “Do you believe in evolution,” they are framing the question incorrectly. That’s like asking, “Do you believe in blue?”
Evolution is nothing more than a fairly simple way of understanding what is unquestionably happening. You don’t believe in it—you either understand it or you don’t. But pretending evolution is a matter of faith can be a clever way to hijack a conversation and pit it in a false duality against religion. And that’s how we end up with people decrying evolution, even as they eat their (genetically modified) strawberries and pet their dogs (human inventions all from the wolf) because they’ve been led to believe faith can only be held in one or the other.
