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If that is the case why is our country in such an uproar? It isn't only Bible believers that disagree with you.

It is interesting that you highlight our country, as only our country is in an uproar about this (and the uproar is almost entirely outside science). And your second sentence is disengenuous at best; literal bible believers make up the overwhelming majority of evolution rejectors. AFAICS >99% of opposition to evolution in the developed world comes from fundamentalist christians.

Fossils are a bunch of dead things without dates stamped on them. Most often we find them pooled together, either in coal beds, oil reserves or fossilized bone graveyards.

Fossils are a bunch of dead things that do have dates stamped on them for those who can read the dates (though even before radiometric dating was discovered paleontologists and geologists considered that an old earth and evolution was crushingly supported by the evidence, radiometric dating is just the icing on the cake). The oldest are simpler than the most modern. The same forms are at the same depth and age. We don't find modern forms in deep strata. Biogeographical distribution accords with mainstream plate-tectonics, etc, etc, etc. Flood geology has no explanation for any of this; just lying nonsense designed to appeal to the ignorant, like the idiocies on your profile page.

Anyway, congratulations on analogising the head-in-the-sand position of evolution rejectors so well with your stolen security truck analogy.

>The oldest are simpler than the most modern. The same forms
>are at the same depth and age. We don't find modern forms in
>deep strata.

>99% of opposition to evolution in the developed world comes
>from fundamentalist christians.

Actually, this is simply not true. While it might serve as an accurate description of an artists illustration of the geologic record as it would be depicted in a high school textbook, it has nothing to do with what is found out there in the "real world." Furthermore, 99% of the support for evolution comes from atheists and agonistics. Your point?

And now for a few words from some believers in evolutionary theory:

>"'Everybody knows that organisms ... get more complex as
>they evolve. The only trouble with what everyone knows,'"
>says [Dan] McShea, an evolutionary biologist at the University of
>Michigan, 'is that there is no evidence it's
>true.’"

>"I suppose the reason we leaped at the origin of species
>was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual
>mores."

(Sir Julian Huxley, President of the United Nation's Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO).)

>"There are only two possibilities as to how life arose; one
>is spontaneous generation arising to evolution, the other
>is a supernatural creative act of God...I will not accept
>that philosophically because I do not want to believe in God..."

(Dr. George Wald, evolutionist, Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University at Harvard, Nobel Prize winner in Biology.)