User talk:Dren

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Welcome!

Hello, Dren, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Mushroom (Talk) 13:29, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Mushroom (Dren 14:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC))


[edit] Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 08:46, 3 March 2007 (UTC)talk to me

[edit] Points re: Human

It is not the position of Wikipedia, or of any accepted academic resource, that a religious belief and a scientific theory are of inherently equal standing, or that they should be treated as such. The fact that creationism (which is not a theory in the scientific sense of the word--whereas evolution is not a "theory" in the colloquial sense of the word) predates evolutionary biology no more makes it preeminent than the fact that belief in a flat Earth predates belief in a round Earth for the Earth article's purposes.

The human article does not assume that all readers accept the theory of evolution. It simply doesn't care. Wikipedia articles are based on the consensus of reputable academic sources, not on the presumptions of readers. Our Earth article, in the same way, does not presume that readers believe in a round Earth; it simply reports on the consensus view of scientists in the field. And the ancientness of "flat Earth" belief does nothing to change that. Wikipedia, like all academic resources, does not base its views on popular opinion; rather, it bases its views on the informed opinion of specialists, as expressed in peer-reviewed journals and the like.

"No single idea about human origin has been proved." - By those standards, no single idea about any a posteriori topic has ever been proved. -Silence (talk) 07:31, 28 March 2008 (UTC)