Let's say, for the sake of debate, that evolution is total bunk and everyone accepts that statement.
How in the world does that make creationism (Adam & Eve, Noah's ark, woman coming from man's rib, talking snakes, etc) the leading scientific alternative or any viable alternative at all?
As many posters on this thread seem to assert, biblical creationism is entirely plausible and there is no need for proof because God works in mysterious ways beyond our understanding.
It doesn't. I recommend Christianity as a religion myself, but that's neither here nor there. The point is that evolution is so abysmally stupid, that you could believe in any sort of a religion at all, and be better off. You could worship Odin and Thor, Cthulu, Dagon, the great pumpkin and pumpkinism, or absolutely anything and you'd still be better off than believing in an ideological doctrine which required an endless series of probabilistic miracles and zero-probability events.
My own attempt to make some sense of the biblical miracles and other facets of antique literature reside here. There is, to my thinking, no making sense of evolution.
ding-ding-ding! Give that man a a cigar!