The origin of species, which you call evolution, is a scientific fact, while creationism is silly nonsense.
And creationism now has strange bedfellows as the Islamists are adopting creationism as their own..
Ohh boy, really?
I think you skipped out on reading the last couple of posts.
Did evolution here on earth start before the earth was formed?
Certainly, the Big Bang was the catalyst that created the earth.
But the Big Bang was a random event made possible by gravity, the elements found in a nebula, and time.
SO ... If God did not ordain the Big Bang - Who or what created existence, time, and space?
Did existence, time, and space create itself?
Did the distant stars create themselves out of nothing?
If I see a beautiful painting in an art gallery - is it fair to say that the painting did not have a painter? Did the painting create itself out of nothing?
I see a chemistry textbook on my shelf. Is it safe to say that my college chemistry textbook did not have a writer? Did the chemistry textbook write itself?
Please, don't confuse this with the Bible's version of creationism. The Bible's version of creationism does not jive well with scientific fact.
I am talking about the fact that there must have been a "higher power" that created the universe in the first place, or that directs the intricacies of its existence.
Evolution? WHAT?
Who cares about evolution? Evolution is a fairly recent phenomenon, creationism deals with the creation of the universe and subsequent events thereafter.
HENCE,
If the earth wasn't created FIRST, there WOULD BE NO evolution. Unless of course, evolution created the earth. In which case we would have to merge the two words "evolution" and "big bang," which would make no sense.
The creation of the universe comes FIRST, the development of cellular tissue and organisms comes SECOND (after the universe and earth were created).
Creationism deals with the former, evolution deals the the latter.
Thereto, you can't say creationism is "silly." Because evolution would be quite silly if the earth wasn't created in the first place.
If time, gravity and matter were not present to create the nebula that developed into the big bang, that slowly created the form of the earth, that slowly fostered the formation of cellular tissue and bacteria, that slowly evolved into us humans - we wouldn't even be here at all.
So the question isn't evolution, it's what do we do when science hits a brick wall and can't explain the unexplainable.