>>Perhaps a sign that the religious right doesn't have as tight a hold as some people are charging:
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>>http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/04/evolution.showdown.ap/index.html
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>Why don't the "intelligent designers" just back off, and everyone comprimise with "God was at/the cause of the Big Bang, and chance and evolution took over from there"? My 10-year-old's comfortable with this (in fact she even proposed it to me when we were discussing the subject)

Because the timelines don't work. Evolution of man started much (much) earlier from present day than did the creation of man. But, there is probably some argument about God's time vs Man's time that I can't quite formulate right now. Need more coffee...