>>512660142 (OP)You can argue against anything; that's part of the scientific process.
What you aren't allowed to do is pass of logical fallacies, or make assertions purely based on the presumed authority of a source.
An alternative hypothesis to evolution is not impossible to imagine; but a similarly convincing argument has yet to be made.
Many religious people feel like evolution contradicts their literalist origin stories of the world; indeed, it does.
And the problem lies not in evolutionary theory, but in them taking their own mythology as literal, instead of allegorical; even the ancient Greeks understood the function of religious stories as tutelary, not literal.
Then there is the fact that the ground-work for evolutionary theory was done by Gregor Mendel; an Augustinian Friar, and later Abbot, who formulated our modern ideas about genetics and heritability through rigorous experiments with breeding pea plants.
Darwin was really just riffing off his work when he started formulating his observations into the theory of evolution.
Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that.
"Literal Minded" religion is religion as practiced by the Laiety.
They have little to no understanding of the inner mysteries pointed to by the body of text, and so can only take the statements as descriptive of literal fact.
The more you study any religion, the less likely you are to take it literally.
Some people say religion is "just" a control mechanism for the retarded masses.
I ask; Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
And even then, there are great thinkers scattered all over the religious spheres.