We part company here. My parents raised all 5 of us Catholic beginning 55 years ago with all that entailed in those days. We all remain Catholic with a firm belief in Gods creation and if test scores are any indication, none of us suffered any deficiencies because we were taught that God created the universe as described in genesis.
I'm sorry that your nieces/nephews don't speak to their father but the argument in general has no merit.
I'm not posing an argument here based on personal experience.
I do believe, however, that most people are incredibly ignorant of science and its methods. They will rush out an buy a Nano, but shrink from understanding the interlinkages of thought and experience that make technology possible.
When you single out a specific finding of science because it is inconvenient to your worldview, you create an open wound that festers with ESP, pyramid power, Alien anal probes, and the like.
You also break the chain of reasoning that makes possible critical thinking on serious topics like junk science. Most of the people on FR have only one way of evaluating science. If it's supported by conservatives it's real; if it's supported by liberals it's fake.
This is pathetic.
You are welcome to believe anything you want about Genesis, but scientifically literate ID advocates like Behe, Denton, and several of the better known FReepers have acknowledged common descent as a fact. How you fit that into your religious system is up to you.