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Before beginning I would like to clarify a possible misnomer of Darwinism. Although, Darwinism is named after Charles Darwin; the apparent father of Evolution, Darwinism incorporates the theories of many ideologies. It could be stated as "a melting pot of ideas" from various pioneers addressing both social and biological changes that do indeed occur. In Wikipedia it states:

"The term was coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in April 1860, and was used to describe evolutionary concepts, including earlier concepts such as Malthusianism and Spencerism. In the late 19th century it came to mean the concept that natural selection was the sole mechanism of evolution, in contrast to Lamarckism, then around 1900 it was eclipsed by Mendelism until the modern evolutionary synthesis unified Darwin's and Gregor Mendel's ideas."

Although the debate over the emergence of a new species through evolutionary processes has yet to be "proven," there are less controversial theories that can and are shown, to be true. Natural selection is the most prevalent of these and said to be one of the cornerstones of modern biology. Wikipedia defines this as:

Natural selection is the process by which heritable traits that make it more likely for an organism to survive and successfully reproduce; become more common in a population over successive generations. It is a key mechanism of evolution.

The problem I see between "God" and "Darwinism" is ignorance; on the part of, well both sides actually. It is obvious that "Evolution"; being a "process", must necessarily require something to proceed. Evolution does not exclude God by any stretch of the imagination, neither does it try. Interpretationalists who "lack understanding" are the cause for the entire ruckus and we simply cannot teach the foolish that are unwilling "to gain understanding".

The fundamental idea of evolution is simply change...and it is empirically evident that things do indeed change. In order for a thing to change, it must first be an existent thing. Do they say that evolution is cause for the "Big Bang"? I do not believe so. Therefore creationists who wish to argue God must take their argument to the "Big Bang" theorists. There is no absolute verifiable scientific evidence that can show a complete transformative mutation of any one species to the next. So I would aver to say; the argument is but human natures incessant need of power and control (ego) that wishes to run the show. Let them argue, sooner or later their hot air will

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