The debate is only pointless to creationists. For these who promote evolution, they can only exist as an arguement against creationism. Darwin took the theory of natural selection and mixed a lot of nonsense into it and tried to use it as a weapon or a arguement against creationism. Evolution is a debate against Creationism. If there was no debate, then you would no longer have the "theory" of evolution. Darwin took the theory of natural selection and mixed a lot of nonsense in with it, then he half heartedly tried to use it as a weapon or a debate against Creationism. What is amazing is that anyone took it serious. What they should have done was to purge natural selection of evolutionary "theory". But it was the only weapon they had against Creationism and thus against the Creator, so they had no choice but to go with what Darwin gave them to work with.