pornmonger, you scare me man.. and warchild, I hope this was sarcasm on your part...
pornmonger, I suggest you do not talk about things you clearly do not even begin to understand...
Also, as far as I have heard in the past, most of the americans do beleive in evolution, but many many many of them do not think it just happened out of pure coincidence, they think that some higher power started it. A higher power being whatever you really want it to mean.
Don't forget, our galaxy is really nothing different than a marble some alien kid keeps playing with.. MiB ;)
Science is a tricky thing, and things are always hard to beleive if they are not provable. And evolution can NOT be proven. Thats a fact, the reason for this simply is that it TAKES too long. I mean, please, we had evolution theories for about 150 years now, it takes a few million years for the human to fully evolve.. its simply impossible to prove this over a such short time period.
There are hints that natural selection is the only logical answer to all these things, but there also are a few gaps in the theory and a few unexplained things. I can understand that many people can not imagine that at some point, due to certain molecules simply existing and forming itself, single celled organisms started to appear which then mutated and eventually we popped up
People simply also have to admit that it is kinda weird that chimps and humans have 99.4% _EXACT_ matching DNA sequences. Coincidence? Not really.. but OBVIOUSLY a chimp will not suddenly get a mutated baby that looks just like a damn human... mutations happen in tiny amounts, a few ten or maybe hundred changes in DNA sequences which control the actual general species.
BTW, medicin also makes witnessing evolution hard, because we simply fix the mutations that happen or do not let natural selection take its cause.