[MrB]

Evolution offered no real help to any of these stories. It was just an afterthought, like some obligatory tie-in to the state religion

It's more of an assumption than anything. And, like all thought in modern "education", assumes the same thing, a godless origin of man. What gets funny is when they use their assumptions to prove their assumptions.

[norraad]

..assumptions to prove their assumptions.

Oh, man, there's a slogan!