Oh, and back to the evolution vs creationism. Sorry, I just had to put my two cents in.
I think you can't dismiss it just like that.
Science can only prove something (a theory or whatever) by
disproving it. You can prove a circle has no corners by trying all you can to prove there ARE corners, and when all experiments and observations point otherwise, that's the only time you can say that...yes, circles do not have corners.
And so if you cannot disprove a hypothesis, you can never prove it either.
Science cannot disprove the existence of a God or a Higher Being, and therefore it is beyond the scope of science to disprove anything related to God, including creationism. I think most scientists know that, although that won't stop anyone from forming their own views.
From what I know, creationism has holes in its defenses, which is quite logical since it does base everything on something that cannot be proven...which is the concept of a Higher Being. But evolution is NOT foolproof either. There are still many missing links and, of course, there is the matter of carbon dating, what scientists use to "date" fossils in the evolutionary map. Defending the reliability of carbon dating is so complicated and messy, most scientists don't even bother and excuse it away as something that you just have to trust.
Doesn't that sound eerily familiar to the word 'faith'?
And so... neither side wins. Will anyone ever win?