I'm sorry, but there is not one wit, morsel, or shred of evidence for Intelligent Design or Young Earth Creationism. "Because the Bible tells us so " is not evidence. By that standard, the existence of Superman Comics is evidence of Superman. By the same token, if one surmises, again without evidence, that life is so complex that it couldn't have evolved, then leaps to a supernatural explanation for it they are either not in possession of the facts, are choosing to ignore them, or are holding Science to a much higher standard than religion. If I see a rock on my front lawn one morning and I don't know how it got there, I don't jump to an irrational conclusion of how it appeared. It is far more likely that kids were responsible than space aliens or the unseen hand of a supernatural being. Scientists today do not posses all of the facts, but they do possess enough to know the basics and many of the particulars of how the universe evolved, and it took far longer than six days or 6000 years. There is unimpeachable proof of that, and that proof does not fit in any way with any other explanation other than Physics. No Creationist has ever brought up a salient point that made a scientist say "maybe we need to look into that", because there is no. way to look into that. There are no facts to check, there is no process to complete, and there is no experiment to conduct or evidence to ponder. Faith by definition is belief in the absence of evidence.
Science requires evidence, Creationism requires faith. This is why nobody on the "other side" will be convinced. The two sides are speaking entirely different languages and using entirely different parts of the brain. You either believe what you see or you believe IN what you feel. Science is real, provable, and by the same token disprovable. That last part is what makes it the bearer of fact, not fiction. To this moment, not one Creationist or Young Earther has disproved one tenant of Cosmological or Evolution Science. Stephen Hawking put it best when he said that not one problem we have attempted to answer in the universe has required the hand of God, but every one has required expanding our knowledge of Physics. Neil deGrasse Tyson also answered the question by saying that Evolution exists whether you believe in it or not. It requires no faith, but it exists by virtue of evidence. Macro evolution is a fact.
These shows are fine for entertainment value, but they most certainly do not expand human understanding of the world around us. There is a place for science and a place for faith, but they are not equipped to answer the same questions or to fulfill the same human needs or desires. Science and Faith can peacefully coexist as long as they remain in their respective areas. When religion attempts to use faith over fact to answer physical questions it fails miserably, and to my way of thinking, does itself a great disservice in the process.
