How sad it is that a basic concept like evolution is still so heatedly debated in current year, when people in Ancient Greece already grasped it?
Abrahamic religions really are the worst thing that ever happened to mankind.
Answers in Genesis basically admits evolution happens but refuse to call it evolution
They insist on calling it natural selection and artificial selection instead
And these are the "extremist" young earth creationists
Basically almost everyone believes evolution is happening right now even Christians
The debate is if humanity came into existence through a specific list of previous species in a specific order on a specific timeline through a big bang
In my opinion there is no evidence for the big bang nor evidence for the evolutionary timeline and missing links
But there is evidence that life forms experience natural selection in the present to change the frequency of their genetic expressions as a population
This can be done by growing plant crops with artificial selection or putting bacteria or microscopic life forms under different criteria in a culture in the lab
Although I think there is zero evidence for a big bang billions of years ago there is also zero evidence for a young earth creation story 6000 years ago
I do not think science is meant to determine ancient history that far back
Science is meant for making decisions in the present using models
