Confrontation all the way . .

A taster from PZ's brillant address at the Secular Humanist Conference:- 

"It's all about the truth, people. And all the evidence is crystal clear right now: the earth is far older than 6,000 years. Evolution is a real, and it is a process built on raw chance driven by the brutal engines of selection, and there is no sign of a loving, personal god, but only billions of years of pitiless winnowing without any direction other than short-term survival and reproduction. It's not pretty, it's not consoling, it doesn't sanctify virginity, or tell you that god really loves your foreskin, but it's got one soaring virtue that trumps all the others: it's true."

Natural Selection at work

This little bit of research reported in the Telegraph struck me as a very easy to understand example to quote the next time I get into an argument with a creationist. The work shows that over a period of 8000 years deer mice living in Sand Hill, Nebraska changed the colour of their fur from brown to blonde to enhance their chance of survival.