SCIENCE!

[elanid]

I'm supposed to be doing my homework, but I'd rather not (c'mon, you guys, I have a Chinese midterm, give me a break :P), so instead, I'm going to write about evolution.  One of my classes this year is an upper-division biology class, Experimental Ecology & Evolution (E3, for short, and I love it more than any class ever), which is giving me uppity

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[elanid]

Okay, let me take this sequentially. ^^ First of all, evolution doesn't say anything about humans having evolved from monkeys - it suggests that, given the evidence, we share a common ancestor. The in-betweens you want are all extinct - because first of all, the source isn't 'monkeys' it's 'common ancestor.' And second of all, the intermediaries have all been out-competed by their descendents - namely, us and monkeys. This site is a pretty decent brief overview of the hominid fossil record, although if you want more in-depth commentary, I'd be happy to dig some up for you.

As far as intelligent design and creationism goes...well, you can believe in creationism all you want, but there isn't one single shred of scientific evidence to back it up - which, according to any definition of theory, isn't. The claim that life evolved out of one single cell, on the other hand, has copious amounts of evidence to support it - which doesn't mean that it's true, simply that, given objective reality, it's vastly more probable than anything else anyone has managed to decide, so to claim that it takes more faith to believe in evolution than to accept that God designed it all is clearly erroneous!

If you want a more in-depth explanation of why creationism and intelligent design aren't science, you could try here, here, or here. (If you need more evidence, again I will gladly provide!)