First, while you don’t do it above, it’s clear that below you are conflating “Christian” with YEC. That’s really offensive.
Evolution permeates all of biology. If it is false, it is leading us astray in all of those fields. If YEC “science” is correct, scientists using it should be outcompeting us in every field. Not only are they not outcompeting us, they aren’t even trying. Actions speak louder than words.
None of the explanations for their inaction make YEC “scientists” look good from either a secular or a Christian perspective.
We don’t “research over data,” Valerie. In the vast majority of cases, we produce new data. Jeanson has quit doing that in favor of cherrypicking the data of others. It’s really, really lazy. He doesn’t really work in the sense that we scientists use the term. That’s another reason why his refusal to appear here is so telling.
You’re looking at text, not research. It’s not that complex. Fitness is a measure of differential reproduction. The complexity comes in when we consider how many things might/do contribute to differential reproduction.
Did you watch the video of the Birds of Paradise?
Or more likely you’re not understanding them because you’re trying to support a position without much background knowledge. You’re also doing textual analysis instead of examining the evidence for yourself.
And we have expertise greater than Jeanson’s, Steve orders of magnitude more. Jeanson is a dilettante in this field.
It’s also obvious that you do not have any evidence to support that belief, just hearsay.
You lack sufficient knowledge to judge.
The words are not the evidence. Your claim that Jeanson’s paper is “detailed” is absurd.
Why should they bother when creationists are so lazy? It’s my responsibility to rigorously test my own hypotheses. Why should evolution be an exception?
It’s only a minority of Christians. Why are you misrepresenting Christianity as a single bloc?
Why do so many of those same people claim that SARS-CoV-2 is a hoax, some right up until they die from it?
I don’t. What I do know is that lazily cherrypicking the data produced by others is not ever going to do it. It’s going to be from those who currently accept evolution and are actively working.
Evidence, the same thing you should be examining now but won’t. The same thing that Jeanson should be producing, but won’t. Textual analysis doesn’t cut it either way.