[sophacles]

When you then say you mean to be "within the bounds of scientific discourse,"

I said no such thing. I am not the person who used the word "evolve". I merely am capable of understanding that sometimes pedantry doesn't actually help anything.

[saraid216]

So why did you respond to pedantry with more pedantry?

[mrqwerty]

Evolve means gradual change to me. For the more sophisticated amongst us, we are able to take the root meaning of the word and understand it's implication in different contexts.

[sophacles]

My statement sometimes pedantry doesn't actually help anything implies that sometimes it does help things. IMO this was one of those occasions.