I ask you the same question I asked at our April 15th gathering. Close your eyes and picture a mouse trap. One honest reason why Evolutionists and Creationists talk past each other is because they subscribe to different sets of paradigms. A paradigm is a set of ideas, concepts or assumptions which provides a framework within which men may interpret their experiences. What one considers to be common sense is not questioned.
Nobody goes through life questioning their own common sense.
Neither do we by nature question our paradigms. By the mid 19th century another explanation was gaining acceptance. In 1859 Charles Darwin published his book On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection . Darwin proposed that all organisms, including man, evolved from simpler organisms by a process called natural selection. It was then believed that genes had mutated or changed through hundreds of years to culminate in the various species in existence.