It's futile to spend too much time answering the creationist/ID claims that pop up here from time to time when all of them have already been addressed and debunked by the scientific community in overwhelming detail. This continually updated index addresses every single creationist/ID claim that has been made to date with short responses and hyperlinks to papers and references with detailed responses. (Most claims go back decades, if not centuries...there is very little new in the way of creationist claims any more. ID so far has made no new claims that creationists hadn't already made in the 60s/70s with different terminology.)

While this a handy resource for debates on origins, its primary worth is as a doorway to education in the entire field of modern science and the scientific process, with a focus on the historical fields of evolution, anthropology, biology, and geology...with a healthy dose of religion and philosophy of science thrown in as well.

If "only a theory" were a real objection, creationists would also be issuing disclaimers complaining about the theory of gravity, atomic theory, the germ theory of disease, and the theory of limits (on which calculus is based). The theory of evolution is no less valid than any of these. Even the theory of gravity still receives serious challenges (Milgrom 2002). Yet the phenomenon of gravity, like evolution, is still a fact.

Funny, you never see creationists propose that we put stickers on textbooks saying that atoms are only a theory or that the idea that bacteria causes disease is only a theory.

My answer is that science is not faith and that those who turn to science to prove their faith do not have faith.

kmcolo, are you talking about religious faith or just faith? Hope you must be able to appreciate the dstinction between the two? Science without a faith is impossible. How could one create or invent (even an idea or theory) without a faith?

You are right that I should have clarified. There is faith and then there is faith. Pure faith, which we associate with religion, is not science and pure science is not faith. One deals with the immaterial world the other with the material. And as I've said elsewhere, and as you rightly point out, the world needs both.