First, evolution has nothing to do with the Big Bang, except they are both theories within the disciplines of science. Evolution is a theory on speciation here on earth and the Big Bang is the theory on how the universe began.

By the way, we know more about the science of evolution than that of cosmology. While most of the universe appears to be dark matter and energy, there are few dark species or those infamous <i>missing links</i> in evolution.

The major <i>dark knowledge,</i> in evolution is how life began. In cosmology, planets, solar systems, and galaxies appear as strange attracters in chaos theory, and the strangest attractor of them all is life.

Life in its most basic form is nothing more than chemistry. But it's chemistry with an attitude. Chemistry with a purpose and that purpose is to reproduce that chemistry. While we have found life no where else in the universe, just about everywhere we look on earth with find life. Given enough time, life will evolve and incorporate the whole of the earth until the planet become one big ball of living tissue.

As to why so many supposedly educated people believe in creation rather than evolution, go ask Paris.