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.
Common descent is neither here nor there. It doesn't affect me one way or the other. Activist courts do.