Think about that one for a minute...
The “origin of species” is rooted in the idea of a singularity: the mechanics of the DNA molecule. All species of Terran life has it. Like the singularity of the “Big Bang” theory, the two are categorically inseparable as immaculate conceptions. It only takes a mere application of logic.
The perplexing question of human origin from a common ancestor to apes is even more problematic. According to evolutionary theory, humans (homo sapiens) did not descend from apes, but from some “missing link.” Although Dr. Louis Leaky spent decades searching and found zinjanthropus and homo habilus, Olduvai Gorge gave no answers. Logic also suggests in order to “descend,” there has to be something to descend from and something to ascend to.
Evolutionary theory, rooted in the universal human dissatisfaction for mortality is a vain search for human origin(s), an attempt to rationalize a yearning for connection to something eternal.
Now, since nobody really knows the answers, it is only a scientific method that would consider all points of view on the issue in educational settings. To do otherwise would be like students dancing around totems, witch doctors proclaiming intellectual taboos and making sacrifices.
This is far worse than what the ersatz secularists accuse the creationists of doing!
LOL, that is the most severe case of projection I've seen in days!
<sigh> Look. You and me, and probably every one of us, wishes we could have an infinitely long life. We all deeply mourn the loss of our loved ones who went before us, and mourn before-the-fact our own eventual deaths. But some of us aren't able or willing to abandon the plain facts before us just so we can believe a comforting myth that makes all our fears go away.
You can try to wish away death, and maybe you'll be successful at it. But why not simply focus on embracing life instead?
BTW, evolution per se has nothing to do with my atheism. Evolution would make perfect sense as the kind of feature of a universe that had the capacity to surprise & delight an omniscient (& therefore bored) God.
"Now, since nobody really knows the answers, it is only a scientific method that would consider all points of view on the issue in educational settings. To do otherwise would be like students dancing around totems, witch doctors proclaiming intellectual taboos and making sacrifices."
How can you justify the use of terms Creationism and Scientific Method in the same context. That's the whole problem with the religeous fanatic, whatever the stripe, he needs no proof or science to expound. He's convinced. He has faith. By the way there are numberous parts of the human anatomy that are vestiges of a precursor species. The end of the tail bone, the fact the humans have back problems because walking upright is not natural, the fact that we have stereo front facing vison as predators do . . not t0 mention incredible DNA similarities. The missing link BS is simply the inability so far to find evolutionary steps in the fossil record. sure would like to find even one artifact in that record that would lead on to believe of a creation event.
That Poll came out of Nashville from the opinions of a whole one thousand bible belters. Take the poll somewhere else and the results would be far different. For a sampling this small to be touted as "Americans feel or Thinks" certainly does require a leap of faith and is typical of how easily humans can be mislead by "faith".