The problem is that science, not just evolution, is undermined by this type of nonsense. All of science must be gutted in order to fit what some people 'believe.' For those of us that believe the strength of the U.S. resides in the technological prowess of our citizens, our own future is being short changed by the anti-science crowd found in the ID basket.
With plenty of funding from the looney Moonies, if indeed they are looney and not malignant.
Plus support accepted from the anti-evolution Islamists.
Just look at the global warming debate. A shame that science has been thus perverted, although I suppose it has always been a controversy, I hear that Newton really got into it with his contemporaries about various things (light as a particle rather than a wave, etc..)
Wow! What a conclusion to make because there are disagreements on how life (and the universe) began. Just what technical prowess is being hurt so bad that we are being shortchanged? What technology is being hurt? Are computers not as good as they could be? How about medicine?
This is not science for science's sake, it's a wondering of where we came from and serves no other valuable purpose than to either validate the existence of a Creator, or to undermine the existence of a Creator. In essence, it is a religion/anti-religion battle that has no affect on the sciences that move and shake the world, yet those who love science more than God are quick to take umbrage over those who prefer to believe in God as the source for us all. Let's face it, without a good explanation for where it all started, anything else is just a guess. Some of us prefer to guess that the bible explains it and others prefer to guess that it somehow happened without intervention.
At any rate, unless you can use the scientific method to prove that believing in Creationism vs. Evolution is harmful to our technical prowess, you might want to reconsider how you state your arguments.
God Bless.
LOL! Are you a drama queen?
"...science, not just evolution, is undermined..."
Undermining evolution, as you say, is not undermining science. There are many technological advances that have originated here, in the minds of many of our technologically overachieving citizens. Let evolution stand on its own feet, if it has feet, and do not imply that if a person does not accept the evolutionary theory that true science is dependent on 'a fact of evolution'.