Evolution Or 'Evolution'

I am a columnist from Sing Tao Daily, a Chinese newspaper published in Vancouver, Canada. I spent more than a year arguing against creationism in the newspaper. Recently I read Robert Moss's article, titled "The Problem With Evolution: Where Have We Gone Wrong?" (The Scientist, Oct. 13, 1997, page 7). I want to offer some comments about it.

In my opinion, the article should be renamed as "The Problem With The Word 'Evolution': How Shall We Deal With The Terminology?" In other words, a meta-linguistic consideration is mistakenly framed as a first-order consideration, as far as the title is concerned. Creationists will really be happy about this confusion. For one thing, it gives them a chance to quote the title without really talking about its contents. To them, what can be better news than the scientific community admitting, again, to the problem of evolution?

In addition,...