"Except, it seems, those who understand the workings of evolution and see no reason to replace science with one particular narrow interpretation of Genesis."
My friend, I am fully educated in biological science and I am fully aware of evolutionary theory and its postulated mechanisms, etc. I just don't agree with it. Partly because I don't think it can explain macro evolution, but mainly and admitedly because I see it conflicts with scripture.
Oh, and BTW, just because you don't hold as high a view of scripture as I do, does not mean I want to "run you out of town." I can only express what I believe. It is in God's hands whether you accept it or not. I'm not motivated to "force" anyone to believe anything...that is a fruitless endeavor and not my responsibility as a human being.
Really? Then you read much more detail into those few hundred words in Genesis than I do.
There are several apparent contradictions in Genesis. The first chapter starts with one creation story. If you read chapter 2 verse 4 (or thereabouts) there is an entirely different creation story.
You can rationalize that the two are the same thing, merely re-worded. But once you rationalize sequence order differences, and timing conflicts etc. you've then rationalized that there is no explicit description of HOW God created life in Genesis. The Bible basically says "God did it", and really doesn't attempt to explain how. That's what science does, with more and less success sometimes.
Since you've thrown out sequence and time from the problem, the scientific view of how life came to be fits in Genesis just fine.
Bottom line, this is a disagreement on the interpretation of Genesis. It is not something that should be brought up in science class, and is not something that should allow the political left to distract us from the important issues we face.