How Did We Get Here?

Something that's always fascinated me is the unending struggle between the people who embrace Creationism and the people who believe Darwinism.
Both groups claim proof of their respective phenomenas; both have their theories. As for myself, I've been content to sit back and watch the the show.
To see the human race so passionate, so unwavering, so determined on a subject, just makes me wonder what would happen if they were debating something worthwhile.

The various theories on this topic alone could keep a person busy running in circles for, well, an eternity...
I went to a school where Darwinism was not taught. We were told it was a big lie perpetrated by the devil to confuse us.
We were literally told that God put those dinosaur bones (for example) in the earth to confuse us. No, really. That's what they told us.

We were instructed that no way did man descend from apes. God created Adam and Eve and that was that. No primordial ooze crawling out of the sea, first crawling, then walking, then discovering fire, then running for office.
Although, given the current state of affairs, it kinda makes me wonder. But that would be a segue into politics and that's not what I want to talk about at the moment.

Another theory--and this is a good one thought up by the religious crowd--involves the story of Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve.
The story goes that Cain was very jealous of his brother, Abel, because he had made a sacrifice to God that was pleasing to Him.

It wasn't that Abel's sacrifice was any better than Cain's, it was that Abel made his sacrifice with the right attitude; an attitude of giving something to God. Cain's was made with an attitude of getting something from God. Kind of like earning brownie points.
Long story short, this pissed off Cain and he smashed his brother's head in. The first murder on planet earth.

As punishment, Cain was banned from the Garden and never heard from again.
Where the theory comes in here is this:
It is written in the Bible that Cain and all his descendants were cursed from then on. So the Christians finish the story for themselves and use Darwin's theory to do it.

It is said that Cain's family branched off from the human race and went "backward", so to speak, they were turned into apes and were forced to evolve (and this is when God made all the lesser primates to keep them company). No, I'm serious here. This is how the theory goes.
So guess who the religious folk believe are the descendants of Cain? I won't even answer that one but I can see the huge flaw in this already. I don't believe they gave themselves time to think that one out properly.

On that same note, given the, um, completion of "Cain's descendants", wouldn't it stand to reason that given the location and people of Jesus' birth, that he would more closely resemble a descendant of Cain rather than that of Abel?

What's my take on all this? Personally, I don't waste time troubling my mind about it.
There were dinosaurs. That's just fact. I don't believe in a God who would plant false evidence. That's just silly.
I mean, this is where our gas, coal, oil come from, isn't it? How could all these things have come about from a time the Bible doesn't even mention?
I could go off on another tangent about how gas, coal, oil, and even money and precious jewels are products of the devil.
Then I could add, look at all the gold and precious jems the Catholic church uses in their decor. Yep. Kinda makes ya wonder who the real bad buy is, hu?

In conclusion, how did we get here? I don't know. My brain isn't big enough to figure that one out. It's all I can do to keep my little world from falling apart day to day.
I do believe in a power bigger than ourselves, though. I won't fool myself on that one. I've seen too many things happen in my own life to think otherwise.
And I believe that someday, when I've left here, I'll have all the answers I need. I think right now The Entity just wants us to be nice to each other. It looks like we have our hands full with that.

As for the answer to the riddle that's as old as time? I'll leave that to the religions and science to figure out. I enjoy the drama.
After all, there are less than 350 days left as of this writing until The End Of The World, anyway.
I can wait.