Evolution is science.
Evolution is the truth.
Evolution is fact.
Our children should be learning the truth in school. Nothing else. Ever.
Millions of years ago, we descended from apes. Get over it! Its not a big deal.
A majority of Americans dont believe in evolution? So what!
400 years ago, a majority of people thought the earth was square. 150 years ago people thought mold and fungus spontaneously sprung from inorganic substances. 50 years ago we thought our solar system was the only solar system in the universe.
Imagine what we will learn 50 years from now?
100 years ago, virtually no Americans believed in evolution. Now, about 35% of Americans believe in it. The number keeps growing, because it is impossible to stop the truth from spreading. 100 years from now, evolution will be accepted fact to all Americans. The truth has a funny way of creeping out, and revealing itself.
I will say it one more time...YOU DESCENDED FROM APES! GET OVER IT! Its just not a big deal.
ROFL .... if you're looking for things that are absolutely and undoubtedly true you'd better look to religion, specifically MY religion.
Should scientific theories not be taught because they may be proven wrong, or inadequate, in the future? Don't be foolish.
The problem is not evolution per se, but the mechanism behind it. It would take BILLIONS, not mere millions, of years for the complexity of the human genome to have evolved based upon random mutation and subsequent selection. The problem is one of irreducible complexity. You can't select a more complex organism from a simpler one unless each successive generation of mutation has been selected as providing a competitive advantage. In an irreducibly complex organism, removal of any constituent part renders the whole useless. These organisms are extremely hard to explain using evolutionary theory. If mutations are random, that takes far too long to account for the diversity of life on earth and the complexity of the human genome. Intelligent design is not the same thing as creationism, it is just more consistent with some of creationism's ultimate presumptions. Most adherents of ID tend to accept the theory of common descent (anathema to creationists). What ID proponents point to are flaws in evolutionary theory that cannot account for irreducibly complex organisms, where many, many mutations had to have occurred to produce a complicated physical manifestation, yet one cannot simply remove one aspect and still have functionality. As a simple analogy, think of a pencil evolving into a pen (I know, I know, I'm just trying to explain). From one generation to another, mutations in the pencil would have to occur which would provide some benefit to the pencil for that mutation to be "selected" by nature as more fit. But having a spring, or ink, or thumb-press would have no use except in the final product (ink would need the tube, for example). Many organisms show these kind of traits, traits that could not have evolved by the result of random mutation, or that under the most generous of scenarios would take a hundred times longer to have evolved than evolutionary theory provides. The alternative, according to ID, is that the process is the product of design. Every attempt by evolutionists to claim they've "debunked" the irreducible-complexity argument that I've read is loaded with flaws and tends to prove the argument more than disprove it, on careful reading, despite the authors' stated conclusions.
Not me.
And friend, not even you:
"Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee..."
-- Jeremiah 1:5
But how will the US reach an accomodation with the Muslim world if it doesn't reject evolution?
the only real solution appears to be to end the government monopoly on education. no government schools. then we have no convoluted "first amendment establishment" issues. then everyone can pay to have their kids taught what they want. 50 years from now - we could then see the results. i have no doubt who would end up the productive members of society, who would be producing children at a rate sufficient to replace the population and who would be creating wealth and dispersing it to those in need - that is unless the darwinists killed us before then. ideas have consequences - you may have come from an ape but i was made in the image of the living God - to whom all humanity will one day account for every second of their life here on earth. believe it or not.