Chris W wrote:

I am continually amazed at how wrong both the religious and secularist
are on

evolution. I like the the way a biology teacher I once had put it. He said
something like this, evolution is a proven fact, it happens every day. If your
going to get all caught up on the issue of whether or not men evolved from apes
you are missing the point. Every living thing evolves to adapt to it's
surroundings as they change. Just because evolution is a fact, it doesn't mean
that men evolved from apes. Although Darwin put that forth as a possibility,
through further study he eventually came to the conclusion that men did NOT
evolve from apes.

A few years ago, Discover magazine had a column in which the author
was relating an
experience he once had teaching biology. He had two skeletons in his
classroom, and
he asked his students to study them to determine which one was from a
male and which
was from a female. One student immediately came up and said he didn't
have to examine
the skeletons, because he would be able to tell just by counting the
ribs. The instructor
told the student to go back anyway and check that hypothesis.

A few minutes later, the student was back with a very distressed look
on his face. He
asked the instructor if he was _sure_ that the skeletons were male and
female. The
instructor said that yes, he was sure. They had come from a reputable
scientific supply
house that advertised them as such, and even if he didn't trust them
there were several
characteristics that lead him to that conclusion anyway.

Then he asked the student why the student was so confused. The
response, as he expected,
was "because they both have the same number of ribs."

The instructor was finally able to convince the student that this was
a flawed argument
regardless of whether or not you interpreted the story of Adam and Eve
literally.

To me, the sad part of the whole exchange was the fact that the
student was unwilling
to challenge what he already "knew" was true.

Rich Lemert