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Does plant breeding somehow imply macroevolution?

• ndriscoll 3y ago
  What I mean is things like plant breeding and genetics ("microevolution") have practical uses, and modern anti-evolutionists shifted to acknowledge it because it's so easy to demonstrate. Knowing how we came to be ("macroevolution") doesn't have practical uses. Tautologically, it happens on time scales far beyond our lifespans. Almost everyone isn't going to do a deep dive into how it all works/become professionals in that area, so even the science is effectively just a story for them. If parents want to tell their kids a different story, it doesn't really matter much. Public school k-12 science is so basic that as has been said elsewhere in the comments, you can learn it all from Wikipedia in a few days anyway. The important topics are reading, writing, and math/logic. Ideally history and political philosophy, but it's not clear that schools meaningfully teach that anyway.