We're arguing because people are confusing belief with science ... and would let their beliefs bleed into science, which leads to bad science (like global warming theory ... how do you disprove that ... it gets hotter --- must be global warming! --- it gets colder --- that's because of globakl warming, too!).
We need to let science be science, and not be tainted by politics.
And my belief in whether or not man evolved from apes has nothing to do with whether or not the evidence that currently exists does not counter the idea that man evolved from a common ancestor as other apes.
Science is a process, andif we did not evolve from some proto-ape, science will eventually figure it out. But we'd need to let science get there on its own ... and to do so we need to have a population that understands the actual scientific theories that large parts of science operates under ... otherwise there will be no one around who has the basic understanding to improve existing theories.
I doidn;t like how my wife made chili at first, but I didn;t throw the batch she made in her face. We worked together, adding a few spices in an attempt to make a better chili ...