"I'm not a Creationist."
And what in my post, pray, made you think that I was referring to you?
"try reading the original article".
I DID read that article. As a professional working in biochemistry, I could tell you that, besides a small thing that other that within evolution theory, the field does not make much sense, this field is where the next (or even the current) wave of not-yet-outsourced knowledge jobs is going to be, just like computerese was a decade ago. Thus we need a serious educational effort (way better than what we have now) in this field. And that effort better be evolutionist, not creationist.
The problem with evolution theory is that it is not treated like a theory at all, but rather a religious faith. Subscribers have structured both the debate and the inquiry around a framework where evolution cannot ever be proven wrong. I don't mean to say it can't be proven wrong because they have shown it to be true, I mean it can't be proven wrong because it is has been exempted from the most basic of scientific requirements--that the evidence has to support the thesis. Instead, what we see is that any evidence that does not fit is either seamlessly assimilated ("ahh, it appears that under certain circumstances, X will happen, despite our previous expectation of Y") or pushed aside ("we still do not understand why we have not found X, and instead find Y, but someday we will"). In other words, it cannot be proved wrong. You can't really consider a discipline that does not allow for the possibility its organizing theory could be proven wrong, no matter what the evidence, to be truly scientific. Actually, it sounds a lot like liberalism, doesn't it?
I remember reading about a Chinese paleontologist (?) who was asked about the biggest difference between working in America and working in China. He said in China you can criticize Darwin, but not the government. In America, you can criticize the government, but not Darwin. I think that says it all.
Has anyone invited Willie Green to this thread?
As an aside, maybe evolution is how G_d outsourced the creation of humans. ;-)
There. Not a troll, merely a thread-arsonist, I was.