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As I understand it, the
evidence for the basic framework of evolution is quite strong. Perhaps
this would be a good example for seeing what makes scientific evidence
"unnatural" and hard to follow or believe. The scientific
evidence is pretty overwhelming for evolution, yet many people resist
it despite the evidence. A closer investigation of why this is so
might reveal just the sort of difficulties people have with scientific
arguments, that Eric was talking about.
Maybe we could start
by collecting together the pieces of evidence people know about:
the fossil record and age determinations of fossils, the mechanisms
of mutation, etc.
Here's one source of
resources on this:
http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/evolution/science/default.htm
Todd