I guarantee if you don't accept evolution as fact, you don't understand it at all. Let's look at where these creationists get their information from and what kinds of people stand in opposition:
Although in the scientific community there is essentially universal agreement that the evidence of evolution is overwhelming, and the scientific consensus supporting the modern evolutionary synthesis is nearly absolute, creationists have asserted that there is a significant scientific controversy and disagreement over the validity of evolution.
The Discovery Institute, a pro-intelligent design lobby group located in the United States, funded heavily by Howard Ahmanson, Jr., a right wing Christian reconstructionist millionaire, also claims that because there is a significant lack of public support for evolution, that public schools should, as their campaign states, "Teach the Controversy". Nearly every scientific society, representing hundreds of thousands of scientists, has issued official statements disputing this claim and a petition supporting the teaching of evolutionary biology was endorsed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners.
Looks like evolution has just about every scientist and academic on its side while creationism has religion (not based on any evidence) and propagandists at a well-funded (non)-think tank Discovery Institute.
Oh, creationism also has the majority of those without high school diplomas or college degrees on its side, while creationism sharply declines with a college education.
Although in the scientific community there is essentially universal agreement that the evidence of evolution is overwhelming, and the scientific consensus supporting the modern evolutionary synthesis is nearly absolute, creationists have asserted that there is a significant scientific controversy and disagreement over the validity of evolution.
The Discovery Institute, a pro-intelligent design lobby group located in the United States, funded heavily by Howard Ahmanson, Jr., a right wing Christian reconstructionist millionaire, also claims that because there is a significant lack of public support for evolution, that public schools should, as their campaign states, "Teach the Controversy". Nearly every scientific society, representing hundreds of thousands of scientists, has issued official statements disputing this claim and a petition supporting the teaching of evolutionary biology was endorsed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners.
Looks like evolution has just about every scientist and academic on its side while creationism has religion (not based on any evidence) and propagandists at a well-funded (non)-think tank Discovery Institute.
Oh, creationism also has the majority of those without high school diplomas or college degrees on its side, while creationism sharply declines with a college education.