I am willing to keep an open with evolution as a theory of biology albeit it should certainly not be above criticism or questioning or assumed as true.
What concerns me are those who use evolution as an excuse to deny God's existence. What concerns me even more is that there are those who deny that some expand the theory of evolution to cosmology in an attempt to do so.
How this can be denied so vehmenently boggles my mind.
How this can be denied so vehmenently boggles my mind.
That part does not boggle my mind at all, for to use the term evolution in the sense that NASA astrobiology and exobiology - or directed panspermia - use it would open the door wide to all arguments for intelligent design.
In fact, many of the creationist arguments (except for the young earth creationists) - look very much like the directed panspermia arguments.
This has no bearing on the validity of evolution. There are those who use gravitional theory for the same purposes but no body seems to be trying to get disclaimers to gravitational theory into textbooks.
What concerns me is those who use their own particular religious theory to deny the existance of scientific knowledge.