[mrnoodle]

All the fighting and such is fun, but I don't see what part of evolutionary science discredits the notion of intelligent design. Let's assume that everything in existence evolved from some prior form, so on and so on back for gazillions of years. There's no proof of that, of course, but from the few connections we've been able to make, there's a relationship amongst similar species, etc.

The science of figuring out those connections and hypothesizing what earlier forms might have been is one thing. Mandating that the only possible beginning is a big bang, or forcing children to learn that we all come from a single-celled organism 1 x 10^1000000000 years ago is, to me, just as self-serving, and just as big a stretch as saying "God started it all". What makes you so sure you're right? Your "proof" of man's origins ends at the Paleolithic era, and most of that is inference and guesswork.

I don't think your big bang trumps my God. In even the most skeptical of minds, they are only on equal footing, at best.