'What is science'?
Science is a basis of inquiry, using the formation and testing of an hypothesis, it's results must be duplicateable. Evolution is a theory, not a fact. It's fine as a theory, but anything that starts with a premise of "first there was nothing, and now there is everything" is leaving out something critical. IMHO, and I went to publick skool too, and got a 95 on the NY State Bio Regents.
You gotta wonder about the fear on the left, such craven fear they all exhibit, what is it they are so afraid of? They're weird, they really are.
Not sure when you took the Regent's but you seem to have some of the material wrong.
Most astronomy is not based on reproducible results.
Evolutionary theory does not address the origin of life and therefore does not start with nothing. It is a theory that proposes a mechanism to explain observations by biologists. Just like Gravitational Theory seeks to explain why things go splat.
Once again IDers mistake the Theory of Evolution with the theory of how life began. Darwin's theory tries to explain speciation and the evolution of simple life forms into more complex ones. He does not take any position on how life came to be on Earth, just how it developed.
No, it isn't helpful at all to actually understand the idea that you are trying to criticize BEFORE you actually try to criticize it. /sarcasm