Consider this. One of the tenants of evolution is that life sprang from the sea. That at some far distant point in time water dwelling creatures (we'll call them fish) crawled out of the water and evolved into land animals. Think about it. We have to presume that millions of fish crawled out of the sea (why should they have?) and died gasping on some primordial mudbank, until a miracle occurs. One fortunate scaly specimen crawls out and, LO! discovers he can breathe air. What felicity, what rapture.

But let's be generous to this religion for a moment. By some further miracle a specimen of the opposite sex, at around the same time, also discovers that he or she possesses this amazing ability to breathe out of water. By a further miracle they discover each other among the rotting carcasses of the less fortunate, mate and rear the next generation.

As an example of the illusion, great store is set in Darwin's study of the Galapogos' Finches. Certainly he observed changes in the finches which led him to believe that the varieties he saw were descended from one original species. Nothing too difficult in this so far. But they were still Finches; still birds. They had not developed into other discint animals. They had not become other than that which they were; birds. Neither was there then, or now, proof that they had once been, fish, or whatever.

Yes, this is why to believe in evolution takes great faith. This is why it is a religion.

Mendels' later study and observence of the inheritance of traits in the easily available garden pea, Pisum sativum, opened up the whole study of genetics, which in itself is proving to be a 'Pandora's Box'. But genetics does not rely so heavily on the extreme lengths of time for evolution to weave its metamorphic magic. Evolution is the illusion, and Darwin its discredited prophet.

An interesting turn of events, and a turn of some old bones, in Johannesburg recently cast grave doubt on the 'Apeman Ancestor' theories. Professor Philip Tobias of South African University of Witwatersrand, after detailed inspection of a skeleton dug up some 10 years ago, and believed to be 3 million years old, declared that the evidence was that the emerging 2-legged creatures went back to the trees to develop longer arms and stronger backs. He says, "If this is true it would mean that there was no giant leap for man-kind when apemen came down from the trees and started to develop into walking, running beings. There was a one-off process which we knew nothing about".

So here's the question. Why do otherwise intelligent people insist that the nonsense of evolution (a theory) is actually a fact? Why is it taught to our children as fact?

The answer is, that to not believe in evolution opens up the big question, "where do we come from?". The alternative to evolution is: to believe in some form of creation by some form of supreme being. This is too much for the evolution soaked humanists, who are generally so anti-creation that they have had to adopt the evolution theory as fact because the alternative is, for them, too ghastly to contemplate.

So the next time someone pushes evolution at you or your children, simply ask the question; "Why do you teach and accept a discredited theory as fact?".

More info on Mendelian genetics can be found at:
The Biology Project: Mendelian Genetics

and for a creationist view try:
Creation Science