Gives me a headache just seeing someone compare evolution to space alien seeding as being "equally plausible".

Evolution is a theory. But some people here don't seem to grasp that there is a big difference between a theory and a hypothesis or even a hypothesis and a random guess pulled out of ones rear end.

There are a lot of things we don't know "for a fact".  We don't know, for a fact, precisely how gravity works. We don't know, for a fact, precisely how magnetism works.  We have pretty solid theories on these things.  Evolution is one of those kinds of theories.  Luckily, most educated people do believe in evolution as it is how many of our medical advances are arriving. Whether that be genetically modified foods, DNA based medicines, studies on fruit flies and other past control systems, etc. Evolution, as a theory, is something that is applied by researchers all the time.  To equate that to a hypthesis that some magical super being just whipped everything out as-is defies any sort of sense.

Believing in evolution does not make religion false or wrong or whatever. But I'd be pretty pissed off if some ignorant religious zealots forced stickers onto my kid's science books.  Because why not stop there? Let's put stickers on everything that's a theory.

Because when you come right down to it, there's not a lot of things we know "for a fact".  Evolutions, however, is about as close to a fact as we're going to get minus a time machine to be able to sit through and watch some large bear spending increasingly high amounts of time in the water until one day, one is born with paddled feet (a deformity) and it turns out that he is better at catching food than the rest. Over time, that gene is passed on to others and fast forward millions of years and you have whales who still, in their skeleton, have the remnants of leg bones.  Or the example of birds in the Pacific where flightless birds dot Pacific islands and no mammals or reptiles live since you would need flight to have gotten there in thef irst place.  Or the cases of elephants who got trapped on Madagascar milliosn of years ago when the island broke off from Africa and ended up tiny (unfortunately, the natives killed them all shortly after they arrived). 

The fossil record AND the DNA record is replete with examples of how evolution has worked. The actual lab evidence backs up the theories of specieis evolving into new species.  Reading some of these posts make sme wonder if some people have bothered to even read up on evolution or whether they're stuck with the propaganda fed to them 30 years ago.  Just in the past 5 or so years, thanks to DNA research, we've confirmed many aspects of evolution. And we rely on the mechanisms of evolution for all kinds of research that we benefit from every day.  If you don't believe in evolution, you should probably stop eating things like corn or oranges and when you see a dog, just close your eyes and say "you're not here..you're not here" because one wouldn't want to recognize the obvious changes dogs have undergone just in the past 10,000 years due to human tampering with dogs (imagine how much they'd change given 10 million years).