In the end it came down to one question for me – stupid or evil? All these scientists from diverse disciplines who live all over the world and have all kinds of religious beliefs all look at the evidence and support evolution so for creationism to be true those scientists have to be either stupid (too dense to see the obvious truth of creation) or evil (they know evolution is false but they have an agenda to hide the truth). Since I know a fair amount of scientists and since I studied science myself I knew that it was neither of those things.

What I realized is that people who accept evolution do so because that’s where all the evidence is pointing. On the other hand creationists – even when they have fancy science degrees – are not a bunch of baffled skeptics. They didn’t believe in evolution but then saw all the evidence for creationism and then changed their minds, they were religious first and then adjusted their ideas from there. Which is silly because this is all based on a literal reading of Genesis and as Stephy pointed out, it’s clearly not meant to be read that way! OK to be fair perhaps the people who wrote Genesis believed it was literal truth, who knows but so what? You don’t see debates on whether disease is caused by demons or germs even though the Bible doesn’t mention germs anywhere and instead blames all diseases on either evil spirits or divine punishment. So where are the Bible literalists defending the evil spirit theory of disease against the secular onslaught of germ theory?