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Well I'm not usually a big Kent Hovind fan, since he is a bit "wacko" on some things and I don't generally appreciate his somewhat cocky approach, but I thought this was interesting since I've often thought along these lines myself.

His offer: $250,000 to anyone who can prove evolution beyond the point where it no longer requires religious-style faith to believe. Creationism is oft-maligned as a "psuedoscience" because of its basis in faith. However, honest evolutionists have to admit their theory is every bit as "faith-based".

Don't believe me? Then answer this simple question: where did the universe come from? If your answer is "the big bang" or the like, my answer will be "and where did the matter/energy for that come from?", and regardless of how much quantum physics technobabble you proceed to bury me with, I continue to respond "and where did that come from?", and so-on, ad naseaum. Bottom line: you don't get something from nothing (science says so: see Laws of Conservation of Mass/Energy and Laws of Thermodynamics).

And so ultimately adherants to Creation and evolution both excercise faith. Neither view could exist without it. So the question remains: how can publically-funded education teach the religion of evolution, if Creationism has been disqualified simply because of its percieved status as such? Whether you agree or disagree on individual points, there is plenty of "science" to go around on BOTH sides. Teach both or neither, and let the kids decide. However, you can't honestly disqualify one as a faith-based premise, when the other "suffers" from the same "problem".