Why does it have to be ‘Creation versus evolution’?
Because a small but vocal minority of religious sects insist that it be so. The vast majority of religions have no conflict whatsoever with the fact that the evidence overwhelming demonstrates that life evolved from a common ancestor through the processes of random mutation and natural selection. However, certain fundamentalist branches of the Abrahamic religions cannot cope with the fact that the bible as they read it is not 100% accurate, and they have concluded that the ToE would render part of their bible in error. This they cannot have, so they fight tooth and nail to discredit the ToE at every turn.
By contrast, the vast majority of scientists are completely content to let people hold whatever religious views they wish to, so long as they don't try to dictate to the rest of us what we can believe, or impose their twisted bastardizations of science on anyone else.
That's why it's "versus."
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate
...creationists have a great way to detect fraud and it doesn't take 8 or 40 years or even a scientific degree to spot the fraud--'if it disagrees with the bible then it is wrong'.... -- archaeologist
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