[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

...evolution is... as solid as it gets in the sciences.

I don't think so. The notion that monkeys gradually learned how to drive, play chess, and solve quadratic congruences by random improvements in banana-picking and mating skills is laugable on the face of it. Triply so, considering there isn't a particle of evidence in favor of it and so many of the prime exponents of "evolution" or "darwinism" or whatever were (and are) charlatans posturing as Scientists (note the capital S).

[From many - one.]

Your qualifications for such a statement are?

[mrjesse]

The notion that monkeys gradually learned how to drive, play chess, and solve quadratic congruences by random improvements in banana-picking and mating skills is laugable on the face of it.

That's actually a very interesting point. The mental abilities of mankind as far back as recorded history are amazing. The number of generations it would have taken where all along intelligence was a major selective pressure is mind baffling to a small mind like my own. But I'm wagering that nowadays intelligence isn't much of a selective pressure -- just look around.

-Jesse