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It's a completely different issue.

You couldn't be more wrong. I read your comment above and the similarities leap off the page. Scientists who want funding have to toe the proper line. Oppose global warming? No money for you. Oppose Evolution? No money for you.

Science has demonstrated micro-evolution -- genetic change cannot be argued against. This has led to scientific advances. Great. The concept that all life has a common ancestor? This is not proven. Just like global warming is not proven.

There are cultural and political reasons why Evolution is pushed by certain people beyond the field of science. The reasons have to do with domination of people, and the imposition of control over free men and women with a Political Elite as the only law that must be obeyed. A higher law gets in the way -- but Evolution says we don't need any higher law: Men can handle everything and anything. Evolution is about socialism just as much as global warming is.

Some of us see this. You do not. If you cannot step away from the belief in macro-evolution, fine -- let's say for a moment that it is all true. You should be willing to aknowledge that in terms of funding and in terms of "political usefulness" for the Socialists, both Evolution and Global Warming are equally useful. You might want to say one is true and one is false -- but the people pushing these concepts don't care about Truth: they care about expediency. The Theory of Evolution is very expedient if you want to impose a secular, materialist, socialist society on mankind.

There is a HUGE difference between scientists tossing some throw-away phrase about how their research shows something about man-made global warming in order to get funding, and scientists actually using a scientific principle to advance their knowledge. No, I'm not surprised that no one gets funding unless they acknowledge the role of evolution in biology; there *is* a requirement for funding requests to be based in sound science. I don't expect that many scientists who deny the role of gravity in planetary dynamics get much funding, either.

You do realize, don't you, that "micro-evolution" is not a scientific concept? And it also is not a Biblical concept? It has every appearance of being invented by young-earth creationist charlatans (YECCs) to try to convince people they aren't liars when they tell them that the evidence of evolution that is all around us isn't real.

So, you personally are unaware of the evidence for a common ancestor. You do realize that just because you, personally, don't know something doesn't mean the knowledge doesn't exist, don't you? In fact, everything you could possibly want to know about common ancestry, and how we determine it, is probably right there on Google (search "common ancestry"). That is, if you have a genuine desire to learn about it.

One last thing: you might want to consider where you got the idea that scientists are trying to eliminate religion. I highly suspect it was from YECCs--they make that claim frequently. If they can't convince people that scientists are "out to get them", then people won't give them as much money.