BUY INTO the Theory of Evolution? You mean accept observable evidence?
As a matter of fact, many of those who post about evolution on the internet HAVE read the Origins of Species. If you knew anything about evolution, you’d know that natural selection is the main mechanism of evolution.
Of course, Darwin never explicitly stated that humans evolved from ape-like creatures, he knew how the public would react. He spent a whole twenty years hesitating on whether he should publish the book in the first place. Nonetheless, anyone with common sense can see that his claims led to the obvious conclusion that humans, like all other living beings, had evolved from something too. We’re not some “special exception.”
As for abiogenesis, he DID state that life could have originated from a “a warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, lights, heat, electricity, etc. present” Are you aware of his letter to Joseph Hooker? Once again, imagine the repercussions it would have had on his reputation if he had made that idea public.
In the end, Intelligent Design/Creationism is still a bunch of bullocks. There is absolutely no evidence supporting it. It bases itself on a conclusion and then uses pseudoscience and ignorance to support itself.
Doctortoon:
That’s what happens when creationists spur their nonsense in the comments section and http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ links to the comic. ;)