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A large amount of human intelligence energy is being directed towards the debate of Evolution Theory. It would be nice to re-frame Evolution Theory to reduce the amount of chatter. (For background information Wikipedia is always good here.)

1. A New Name

The current term has problems with being confused by the media and with getting beat up by the literalists. Mainstream media defines evolution as humans developing cool super powers. You might hate that definition, but it is stuck. So way too much energy lost trying to argue the proper definition of the word. This is a numbers kind of battle so the Scientific community will likely lose to the larger TV viewing community. The literalists have a similar approach to mis-defining the term, then going on to defeat the wrong definition in arguments. Weird, but popular.

For a new name go with Species Change. This term is based on the popular phrase-of-the-day Climate Change. Everyone agrees the climate of the Earth does change, but everyone does not always agree the world is constantly getting warmer (hinted at with controversial Global Warming). So everyone can look at the term Species Change and admit that throughout history there has been a change in the species that have lived on this planet. There is something going on we can label Species Change.  Within the framework of Species Change you can still debate the process of that change.

The term is also a more generic phrase to allow genetic traits to change in any random direction; simpler traits, more complex traits, purple hairy spot traits, what-ever. To avoid the mind trap of evolution moving in only one direction.

 2. A Tighter Link with Climate Change

Always include up front the note that Species Change works best in normal conditions. If a larger Climate Change event occurs, like giant meteors, the overall mixture of species gets a big short term shakeup. Creatures lucky enough to have traits able to survive what-ever just happened get to live. Not the most complex or coolest, poor T-Rexes.

3. A Tighter Link with Nature

Finally it is strange to talk about the change of animals alone. To analyze the trait changes and mutations of bees without the matching changes in flowers and the more general environment. Maybe that was complex for previous generations, but from now on we should track and match up everything.  This is the information age. Fire it up. A time-line to show the changing bees, the changing flowers, and the changing overall environment. Or when the oxygen content of the atmosphere changed… across the world every living species changed to accommodate. The Species Change would look self evident. No interpretations. The time-lines and pictures show/state what has been recorded as actual. You can see and interpret the matched information for yourself.

4. Darwin should be OK with this

The poor guy was just not prepared for the hyper politically correct global community we share today. One giant culture defining everything we can.  He was focused on his work below the level of naming his idea. Probably where the focus should be. And if the Scientific Community moved together to re-brand and improve their agreed upon term for the evolution of species they could get back to that important work.

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