I have no idea why any well adjusted adult would have so much emotionally invested in this.
I am concerned that American children are being taught that this is science. The USSR went down this path, where what they wanted to believe to was allowed to dominate actual science (Lysenkoism) and it put them behind in the field for decades. If you want to see other countries pull ahead of the US in science and technology, I can think of no better way to accomplish it then undermining science education in this country.
Science is what one finds, not what one wants to find to support a political or religious belief.
Eh.... as long as everyone treats it as a joke it’ll stay that way.
If they believe so fervently in their interpretation of scriptures that they’re willing to reject everything that can be tested and determined (and doesn’t necessarily conflict with scriptures) then so be it. It’s their problem they don’t understand science, not mine.
Science has its own set of rules, and religion has its own set of rules. The more simple minded become befuddled - and even enraged - when they try to apply one set of rules on the other.
real science is not on the side of evolution. It is still only a theory.
I am heartened by the many voices of reason here.