My parents hate the band "Velvet Revolver" because Revolver has the word "evolve" in the middle of it.

Beat that!

yes i do, that is why whales have hip bones :p

And lungs, back legs, mammalian brain, etc...

yes, there is a lot of evidence that they were once land dwellers :p

I would like to think that pretty much everybody accepts evolution. Now, what began that evolution and what led to the circumstances that created evolution as it exists...THAT is debatable. Perhaps God, perhaps random chance, perhaps something else entirely.

But evolution itself is a scientific fact.

Uggghh. The "do you believe in evolution" argument often gets messy and convoluted. So here's what I believe:

Humans have always been a separate, distinct, intellectually-superior species from all other living things. Humans are not a result of another lesser species and never have been. The human that is alive today is virtually the same as the very first human that ever lived.

"But bimmy, don't be an idiot. Don't you believe in any sort of evolution at all?" Of course. However, I believe that whatever aspects of evolution that conflict with the aforementioned position are entirely false. Anything outside of this, however, is secondary, and I am generally open to discussing the possibilities.

@d21lewis: And I would LOVE to talk about the abortion issue.

I went to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and they had a room full of intermediate fossils between whales and their land mammal ancestors.

And where were these original humans from? They sprang out of the mud?

Humans have always been more intelligent than other species, yes (perhaps not dolphins), but you can't deny that an average human now is smarter than the average human 100 years ago, let alone 4 million.

Well, I've always been (or rather, tried to be) of the open mindset in that, in theory, if something makes sense, I'm willing to consider it. Evolution has passed this point and into provable fact, so of course I will accept it. You give me hard fact, and I'll believe it. (Give me soft facts that I can shoot holes in, though, and...)

I and btw it was me that clicked no.

I did it on accident, why is yes so near to no?!?!?!