Carl Underguard said:
It depends on which religion. Most Christians I know dispute the age of the Earth and the existence of Neanderthals and of transitional species between our ape ancestors and homo sapiens.
I seriously doubt this. At least as stated.
Would you care to opine which of these facts you believe are true?
1) Most Christians dispute that the earth is older than ~6,000 years.
2) Most Christians dispute that Neanderthals ever existed.
3) Most Christians dispute that there was a transitional species between apes and humans.
4) Most Christians dispute that humans were the result of unaided natural evolution, and God had no part in their formation of consciousness.
Four very different questions.