A big part of that is people have a poor understanding of big numbers. I took a lot of math classes, and I am just barely aware of the fact that I do not really understand large numbers. Billions of years time for evolution to take place makes perfect sense, if you understand just how long that is.

Many of us has seen the attempts to try and bring the enormous number of 4.5+ billion years to a rational number. Like the on the time line of the earth boiled down to 1 year, This Jesus Christ story character was born at 11:59 and 42 seconds on December 31st. I always try to ponder those things on new years eve, I think about the entire year, everything I done, then just before the 10 second count down begins, is when the last 2000 years began.

Reminds me of another large number using Jesus Christ. Keeping to simple math (no inflation/interest etc) in today's dollars. If Jesus Christ made 500,000 dollars a year, every year, and never spent any of it, and was continuing to work through today, he would of earned his first 1 billion dollars. He would have to work another 175,600 years like that, to catch up to Bill Gates, even at that 'phat' half a million a year salary. (Remember he cant not spend any of his earnings!)

@Charvak: "The New Pope has accepted that The theory of Evolution"

And yet everywhere you look in the Vatican you see evidence of evolution working in reverse, with 21st century people degenerating into medievalist atavism and de-evolving mentally into rodents and cockroaches.