There has never been a more perfect litmus test for intelligence and education than one's attitude toward evolution. Evolution and natural selection have nearly the highest agreement between theory and observation of all scientific theories.

But because of a certain contingent among the religious, anything that casts doubt on a literal work-for-word reading of the old Testament must therefore be wrong, and needs to be cast into the outer darkness.

This, in turn, arises from the intersection of two sets among people. Set one are those who have religious beliefs. Set two are morons (and yes, boys and girls, "morons" has a clear definition). The intersection of the sets has the right combination of literalness and stupidity to want to ignore the role of evolution in the world around us:

http://i.imgur.com/XawS2xt.jpg

The solution to this problem is ... wait for it ... evolution. It will take some time before there are no more people who try to use rhetoric to fight science.