People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if you build the biggest wind farm, can it run anything more than a domestic washer and dryer and a computer, for the year? I'm sorry guys, the answer, you're going to be shocked to know: it ain't much more than that.

Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show

It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult the evolutionary biologists, because they are the ones who invented the idea of competition. It comes from the field of evolution.

If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.

I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.