Evolution vs. Intelligent Design - no need to believe

Just read a 2005 Neil DeGrasse Tyson essay that is worth looking at if you haven't seen it before. He is now even better known that he was then since he is hosting a regular PBS TV show on science.

I am constantly amazed how the folks I meet who don't like evolution know so little about it. The science is so far ahead of their criticisms - they have no idea. I have tried to get a couple of my family members to at least open their minds enough to read some articles by science writers showing how it is the basis of all biology, has a clear history of being able to explain a lot about life, is confirmed and made stronger every day by new discoveries, has only a few minute "gaps", etc., but they just don't even open the article. It might shake their faith or something.

Just like you don't have to believe in gravity for it to work (it is a theory, too), it just "is", you don't have to believe in evolution, either. It just is, and will continue whether we believe in it or not.