I think the problem is that creationism is so easy to believe in. If you want to understand evolution you have to work at it.

In 1985 my parents were driving home to Maine through Georgia and stopped in to visit us. They recounted a conversation they overheard in a local diner. Apparenly the people involved had just come from church and were discussing what they knew of evolution. As they seemed to understand it there was a monkey that one day turned into a human.

Until people are better educated this kind of misunderstanding will continue. And the education will not take hold in people who don't want to hear it. So this debate will continue.