A little while back I published an article on species concepts in Reports of the National Center for Science Education, and I just discovered that it is available on the web. This is actually abetter format than the published version, which has weird columns and layout. The citation is
Wilkins, John S. 2006. Species, Kinds, and Evolution. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 26 (4): 36-45.
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There are nearly 500 complete responses to the survey from last week. Here's a CSV file of the results. Below the fold are the frequencies as well as N's. I might report some trends in the data, but a lot of it is predictable.
Since I asked regular readers to fill out a survey, I've received over 300 responses. My own experience with these surveys is that about 50% of the total responses come within 24 hours.
You were trying to explain some of this to me in NYC back in '05, but I think I must have completely missed your point. I was also surprised that Linneus---who produced all the evidence for common descent---was a fixed-species creationist. I knew he had once questioningly (mistakenly?) referred to a plant variety as "a daughter of time" but I suppose that must have been late in life.
I can use some of this, thanks.