depends on your point of view, LJ.
A lot of folks would be more likely to say that it is spreading like the miasmic stench of an ill-maintained public port-o-let.
Well, all I can state is my own POV. I am definitely *not* in the young earth camp, that's for sure.
The real problem with Darwinist evolutionary theory (besides the fact that I consider it erroneous) is that it is based on the premise that the earth, indeed the universe, is accidental, and therefore purposeless and soulless. Some people kind of tack on the idea that, well, maybe God used evolution as way to create. But the basic evolutionary premise is without any plan, purpose, or God in control.
And the premise that life is in essence meaningless, purposeless, with no Supreme Godhead, is destroying what makes human civilization human. People who see no eternal future, no eternal justice, only a firefly-like second of eat/sleep/sex and then die, are hopeless people.
You probably know that I am not a doctrinaire kind of person; I respect any religion and any sincere practitioner of any religion that teaches basic moral precepts. But the concept that life has meaning and purpose, that the individual is more than a machine which will drop dead, and that there is a Supreme Being in charge of it all is vital to human existence. And the proponents of evolution deny these truths.
So that's my POV, fwiw.