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alstewartfan: "It's not accepted by many people b/c it's preposterous.
To imagine that the millions of intricacies inside our body came about via modification through descent is downright laughable."

Laugh if you wish, but fossil evidence suggests the first multi-cellular life appeared over 3 billion years ago.
Single-cell Eukaryotes go back nearly 2 billion years, multi-celled a billion and the first animals about 600 million years ago.

So, we are talking about very long periods of time indeed, and slow, slow baby-steps for each advancement.

DPMD: "...relativity hasn't been politicized like evolution has, and hasn't been co-opted to disprove the existence of God.
Actually, the opposite, if one reads some of Einstein's statements on the subject of God."

Actually, like Einstein, Darwin also believed in God, albeit a deistic "clock-maker" God, as some of our Founding Fathers also believed.
As for politicized -- well, there's a genuine laugh, since all the politics around evolution has been inserted by those who refuse to accept it, for religious reasons.

So, we are talking about very long periods of time indeed, and slow, slow baby-steps for each advancement.

Yes we are--Last I heard, it takes about a million years for each major advancement.

Now, explain to me how non-sexual-reproducing life (multi-cell amoebas) can produce sexually reproducing life, not once, but twice, and in the same neighborhood on the planet, in the same lifespan, and each of the (at least) two then be sexually compatible (not two males, and not two females).

Then explain how that is possible within only 2 billion years--roughly 2,000 advancements.

“all the politics around evolution has been inserted by those who refuse to accept it, for religious reasons.”

You may be surprised, and dismayed, to know that even more religious people, including myself, actually believe that evolution was among the many creations of God. We don’t disbelieve in evolution; much of it makes sense. What we don’t buy is the creation of everything from nothing, followed by evolution, which, by the nonreligious pushers of the concept, would have us believe that complex organisms evolved - slowly, oh so slowly, as you say - with no material foundation, seeking to completely ignore irreducible complexity.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but truly religious people accept that creation and evolution - true evolution - actually coexist.

“As for politicized — well, there’s a genuine laugh...”

Somehow i don’t think it was the religious people you cite as the politicizers who called for creationism and intelligent design to be criminalized in our schools, further protecting our children from words deemed too frightening to confront.