It may just be that the argument over Creationism vs. Evolution is largely semantic. That makes it no less real, of course.
If Evolutionists are right (and I think the probably are), nature herself is actually vastly intelligent, more so than human beings are able at this stage of the game to fully understand. And this may be just what is at issue: the Creationists wish to see a god whose intelligence they can understand and who conveniently reinforces their interpretation of “biblically revealed truth.”
Their Intelligent Designer is capped by two leather covers of the NRSV or KJV, nicely situated in neat rows of vaguely Shakespearean prose. And while they’ll claim otherwise, that their God is unlimited in His knowledge and scope, omnipotent and omnipresent, their notion of god in practice is considerably more limited – to the point of being moribund. He is limited to a paltry few rules of behavior and being (say ten with the odd covenant thrown in for good measure), and is dead or dying in that these rules shall never be allowed to change or be revealed to have been wrong to begin with.
The true ire of the Creationists at what scientists are trying to show is not that it denies god, but rather that it suggests a god whose nature they cannot control with their dogmas and traditional sets of interpretations. They are angry about the minor truths that the theory of evolution reveals because it threatens their monopoly on ideas about the nature of “their” deity.
I suggest as a remedy that they read the book of Job more carefully – most critically that they read beyond the part where Job’s troubles are recounted to the part where god talks directly to him, and Job, humbled, for once, shuts up and listens.
Someone once told me that make a forum for the village would be too much of a nightmare because of all the spam-killing and oversight required.
Anyway, it’s apparent to me that God created evolution on the fourth day. Around 10:35AM.