Your religious bias is showing. Evolution makes no value judgements. That's not what I meant, I merely said that one can only talk about evolution once it is proved that the cheetah runs faster than its predecessors, otherwise the whole idea of evolution is a mirage.
Degeneration is simply a term opposed to evolution, neither contains a value statement.
In fact, many of us have no idea about the origin of life. What we do have an idea about, however, is the fossil record of human evolution, which is today fairly complete. Darwin worried that no missing links would be found. Ah yes, evolution theory is correct, whatever the facts. I did not intend to say that evolutionists are not pure scientists, what I did say is that evolutionism is basically a materialist philosophy and far more biased than creationism.