Evolution is not the only game in town. I cannot stress enough, though, that these debates cannot be won simply through a presentation of facts and evidence because God’s enemies so desperately need something, anything, no matter how improbable to provide rational underpinning, to dissuade them from the dreadful truth they know viscerally.
Given the weak state of the church, it should hardly come as a shock that some professing Christians would seek the bulwark of man’s approval. Though man rail, mock, and scoff, God’s word stands silently. Argumentum ad populum.
Evidence is therefore interpreted within the confines of the endgame rather than leading thereto. Evidence to the contrary (Noah’s Ark, living pterosaurs) is and will continue to be ignored as an inconvenient truth to the faux reality used to justify abortions, sodomy, and over 100 million murders of those deemed evolutionarily unfit.
I don't know how to participate in a scientific debate that can't be won through a presentation of facts and evidence. It's good to know that there's no point in presenting you with facts that you think somehow support God's enemies.
Evidence to the contrary (Noah’s Ark, living pterosaurs) is and will continue to be ignored
We just got finished discussing the coelacanth, whose find as a "living fossil" got tons of publicity. Do you really think anyone would ignore evidence of living pterosaurs? Quite the contrary.
No, neither side can win this debate.
Faith is a vital component of both belief systems. You and I admit this, but they cannot. Evolution is an interesting study. It is not the compelling “truth” that it’s proponents claim it to be.
So you and I wind up being able to be truthful to ourselves, and they wind up not being able to be truthful with themselves. It’s kind of sad really, but hey, this is how they choose to live.
The religion of science prevents them from admitting anything other than the compelling truth of their belief system, which truly doesn’t exist.
One religious belief system can be taught in our schools. Another cannot be.
At the end of the days, that’s reality. IMO