You are here Review: The Evolving World The Evolving World was a
book that needed to be written and ought to be read by everyone
— but particularly those of us who promote evolution education
to the general public. The main message for this audience is
that other scientific theories, such as germ theory and
heliocentrism, that are now widely — though perhaps not
universally — accepted among the general public took much longer
to gain acceptance than has evolution — at least so far. This
conclusion may be a little skewed, since public access to
published information and the variety of media options clearly
worked against rapid dissemination of, say, heliocentrism even
among members of the research community. Still, the point is
well made in several examples: new scientific theories take time
to get accepted, and this happens more readily when the new
theories connect to issues and concerns that the general public
has in everyday life. The first 190 pages of this book make this
point well with a variety of exam