We like common sense better than academic degrees....they are way more useful to a genuinely productive life.
I like having both.
And rejecting evolution for creationism isn't common sense. You've rejected an idea that unifies mountains of data from a multitude of sources, accurately makes predictions about what can and cannot be found in nature, provides a rational mechanism for evolution consistent with the known actions of nature, accounts for both the commonality of all life as well as biodiversity, and has had practical applications that have improved the human condition in areas like medicine and agriculture for an idea like creationism that can do none of that. That's not common sense, either.
I guarantee that we, as a group are happier than all the atheists put together.
I guarantee that I am happier than you.
You tell us how horrible you think mankind and the world are, and you seem to be living life as if you're waiting for something better - as if you're waiting at some cosmic bus stop for ride out of here. You couldn't be happy believing such things. You're just hopeful - hoping for something that has been promised to you, but for which there is no evidence.
I, on the other hand, am happy to be here now, and content with my lot in life.
Incidentally, this wretched species just landed on Mars again. Hooray for mankind.
Macro-evolution suggests that all creatures got here by means that are not testable or demonstrable. It's all based on educated guessing not facts.
Nah. Evolution is based in facts. It's your religion that is pure, unevidenced speculation. But you're not able to tell the difference.
Humans have always been human...apes have always been apes. They still are.
The evolution of humans from ancestral apes is a fact. If you need to deny reality to support your creationist beliefs, your beliefs are wrong.
As I mentioned to you on another thread, faith is guessing. If you ever guess correctly about some aspect of reality, you will know because reality will support you. Had you guessed that evolution rather than creationism was the correct choice, you wouldn't need to be fighting off reality and be denying science. You wouldn't be forced to deny obvious truths, but rather, like the discovery of human chromosome 2 and its implications, find that they support your lucky guess.
But that didn't happen, did it? Advances in science continue to contradict creationist beliefs. Why? Because they're wrong. Like the alchemists and astrologers who also guessed incorrectly, creationists are able to generate nothing of use to the world.
Astronomy and chemistry were the reason and evidence based disciplines that replaced the faith-based ancestors, and guess what? Suddenly, study of the the stars and chemicals became productive. That's the sine qua non of a correct idea. The sterility of creationism, alchemy, and astrology are what identify them as wrong ideas.