it's all about ego... the "sin" of pride is what lies behind the creationist rejection of evolutionary theory.

What upset people about Darwin's work was twofold... he included humans along with the rest of the animal kingdom AND worse yet, believed us to be related to apes. gasp... horror!

When Darwin pointed out that humans had the closest ties to apes, he based it on physical characteristics. Later discoveries dealing with blood typing and the occurrence of the Rh factor... so named because the research was based on work using the Rhesus monkey. Later work in genetics has found that humans and chimps share over 98% of our genetic makeup.

Now pete's main gripe is the thought of being related to pondscum, however distantly...   he just can't get past that. His problem is vanity...

He completely ignores plate tectonics and continental drift... ask scaarpi about spreading plates for a first hand account... it's happening right under our noses...

if Genesis is so accurate... how come it ignores this major feature of the so called firmament? 150 million years ago the hill I live on was part of Wales... before seafloor spreading started and the Atlantic Ocean opened up. Why would god leave out something so important in his little book? For that matter, why leave out dinosaurs?

Darwin's reading of important, new geological theories of the time were critical in providing a timeline that supported his theory.