Re:creationism IS NOT A THEORY (Score 2, Interesting)

I usually like to stay out of these things, but Omerna brought up a pet peeve. You can, in fact, test evolution on a human timescale. Head down to your local library and check out "The Beak of the Finch", by Jonathan Weiner. It was written a couple of years ago, and won the pullitzer.

It discusses relatively recent (over last twenty years or so) research done on finches in the Galapogos islands. Essentially, the research showed that beak size varied significantly at a population level due to climactic fluctuations during the study period. Furthermore, the researchers observed changes in allelic frequencies in the population over the same time period(1) that were consistent with the observed phenotypic changes.

In other words, they were able to watch evolution happening over a very short period of time. Pretty cool stuff... it basically clinches Darwin's hypothesis. Of course, you can never "prove" something, only "disprove" it, but you sure can stack the circumstantial evidence pretty high. (1) This is, by the way, essentially the scientifically accepted definition of evolution: A change in allelic frequencies in a population over time. This is one point that creationists get wrong *all* the time...