User talk:Danthekarateman2

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NPOV and evolution
I saw the edit request you made, although it was actually made in the wrong place. Edit requests have to be placed on the talk page of the article you wish to change, and you have to provide reliable sources to verify those claims. However, your request could not be followed in any event, because you're misinterpreting what the neutral point of view policy means. The main issue is that "evolution" isn't an opinion, in either the ordinary use of the word or in Wikipedia's specific use. Evolution, rather, is a scientific model for what happens to species across multiple generations. Second, even if it were an opinion, it probably wouldn't rise to the level of a due opinion--that is to say, we only include opinions when they are held by a large enough group of people. Remember, the rejection of evolution, especially for non-humans, is held only by a minority of Christians (Young Earth creationists and others who believe in Biblical literalism). Major Christian churches, including Catholicism and Lutheranism, for instance, both accept that evolution, at least in part, is compatible with the Biblical story. Third, even if we decided to include the Young Earth story, wouldn't we then also need to include the beliefs of other religions? Note that other religions have different Creation myths. I hope you can see why such an approach is simply implausible. Wikipedia generally summarizes the beliefs most widely held by academic or other similar sources, and Young Earth creationism simply doesn't fall into that category. I'll add your talk page here to my watchlist, so if you have any questions, you're welcome to post them here. Qwyrxian (talk) 01:59, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

August 2013
Please do not add or change content, as you did to John Mayer, without verifying it by citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.  Neil N   talk to me  01:28, 27 August 2013 (UTC)