Garry Wills -- who fills in "occupation" on his federal tax return with "self-hating Catholic" -- denounced America in The New York Times as an unenlightened nation full of people who believe "more fervently in the Virgin Birth than in evolution." What kind of sick mind "fervently" believes in evolution?
If evolution is the true mechanism for the coming-to-being of man, then the details are ultimately irrlevant. It is what it is, and it doesn't matter to us one way or the other. We are but a blip in a billion-year-long process of no consequence to anyone but ourselves, so who gives a fig where we came from or where we're going?
Whereas the Virgin Birth is of immediate importance in the everyday world, so it makes sense to "fervently" believe in the Virgin Birth. What makes no sense to me at all is a "lukewarm" belief in the Virgin Birth. If you believe, the entire world is transformed by the effects of that event, so it should be important to you.
I will answer my own first question about the sick mind.
The person who "fervently" believes in evolution wants to demonstrate to his lessers that their belief in God is misguided superstition. It is of central importance to such a person that their is no Deity, and that we are all products of random, accidental interactions. To them, evolution is of vital interest because it "proves" the non-existance of God.
To such people, I happily say, "Go away!"
It is of central importance to such a person that their is no Deity, and that we are all products of random, accidental interactions. 
Look at this image. It certainly isn't the product of evolution. On the other hand, it wasn't created by intelligent design. I didn't create that image. No artist drew it. And it isn't the result of any random process.
It is part of the infinite fractal image created from the very simple Mandelbrot formula:
z'=z*z + c
Some parts of the Mandelbrot image are quite beautiful and others are somewhat disturbing -- but always varied. That same formula also produces this:
As far as we know, the universe is governed by simple mathematical rules. Scientists are sometimes asked, "If the rules are simple, then why is the universe so complex? The standard answer used to be that somehow random variation in the space-time fabric causes the complexity.
But today we know that infinitely complex things can be created without any randomness at all.
Maybe there is another alternative between evolution and intelligent design.