I think I should have voted option 1 or 2. More likely 2.
Also, some of you may hate me after this post.
Anyway. As a general rule, stupid people infiltrate every aspect of society, including science and religion. It is these stupid people who eventually lead to a public image deterioration. Look at what stupid people are doing to religion... they are radicalizing it (either actively or they themselves become radicals) and making it one-dimensional so that every other moron on the face of the world will have an easy time understanding it. Certain strains of evangelicals... or the westboro baptist church comes to mind. The latter has successfully managed to reduce a 2000 years old philosophy with a further 6000 years old background to 3 very simple letters: GOD HATES FAGS!. Never underestimate the potential of stupid people to reduce everything down to size for it to be easily memorized.
Jesus would go into a mental coma if he would see these people if he hadn't already. Maybe that's why he wanted to die in first place... he knew stupid people would make such a thing possible and decided he would take leave from Earth until this whole thing blows over. You see, 2000 years ago, stupid people knew that they were stupid and when their betters addressed them, they would shut up and listen. Nowadays, stupid people think they're smart, and that is part of the problem.
That problem has indeed given birth to what may just be, the greatest irony in the entire world so far. And that is saying something. Because stupid people think they are smart, they have thus ventured into the new found land of science and they did this using things that were developed by technology. Here i find the internet to be the top ranking villain and I shall explain why and some of you may hate me here. Stupid people have ventured into the scientific world reading half-assed news stories, written by other technologically incompetent people and then pushed those stories further into the world in a damaged form. Other stupid people fell victims to the stupidity and incoherence without being able to realize the correct message.. and spread the word further. And like a pool of bad ideas, the worst always surfaces and is generally adopted as being the common, lowest denominator that all bad ideas can relate to... but need the support of the entire community to have weight.
This gives birth to endless streams of stupidity in various ways. There are 3 types of scientifically illiterate idiots who roam the internet while at the same time, praising science. And I do mean praising science in a semi-religious way.
1) the born-again stupid atheist. Not all atheists are like this... this is a group of people who are generally found between the ages of 12-22 whom, at a very young age, have been intoxicated by other atheists of public reknown. They have since then roamed the world trying to understand things that is beyond their understanding and praising, with a sort of holy passion, the cult of atheism as a cult dedicated to science. Now some of these people may not be complete idiots but if you travel through the reddit-sphere you will see some of these people post comments saying that science nullifies this or that.. or proves this thing wrong or right. I repeat, not all atheists are like this. In fact, most atheists are atheists in the correct fashion of the notion... but stupid atheists are the atheist community's Westboro baptist church.
2) The Apple addict. Not all people who are apple addicts are like this.. only the people who want the latest and greatest because somebody told them its the best thing ever... people who rushed to get the iphone5 despite having iphone4 in good working order for no good reason are listed here. Now, there are people who wanted the iphone5 for legitimate reasons... but those are I think, a minority of the consumer base. Most, are just the herd.
3) The para-science individual. These are people who put up all sort of wierd **** that doesn't really have any tangent to science and call it such. Not the case here.
That being said I will like to set a few things straight. There are a lot of well-intentioned people who make a few errors of judgement... and these people fall in category #4 which is the only good category of people who appreciate science but who are not people who are specialists in any scientific field. A theory is not a fact. Evolution is a theory. It may be a well founded theory with many adepts, but it is still a theory. It may still be proven to be false, though it is highly unlikely. Because it is still a theory it leaves room for speculation, interpretation and other theories to emerge. The reason it is not fully proven is because there is still the question of the missing link. The problem with that 1 missing link is that it has been a missing link in repeated numbers. 100 years ago there were people who claimed to have found the missing link only to discover that their discovery gave birth to another missing link. And then another, and another. The missing link is a recurring event. We are still hunting for said missing link... and if history is indeed something to go by, once we do, we may just find another missing link to our past and evolution.
I personally believe in evolution. I am not doubting it. It is the most likely theory. Does this discredit the Bible? Perhaps. Does it make it null and void? Not really. There are hundreds of pages of scientific data for every single link in the evolutionary chain. You can't make a best-selling book, or a religion, with tens of thousands of pages.
I may be derailling here... but the big bang theory (the real one, not the show) is also a theory. And unlike evolution, there is little evidence to support it. It is however the most well accepted theory out there. It doesn't make it true. It may be so that God made the universe. It is not out of the question. Just because people reject the notion doesn't make it void. The greeks rejected the notion of "0" it didn't make it unreal. It did make it unreal for them... but not for the world.
A lot of people thought the world was flat a long time ago... it didn't make the world flat. We have no evidence to suggest that the world wasn't flat before it was fully explored, that it bended into shape once people started changing their minds in light of new discoveries... but that is just highly illogical now isn't it? What about all the thing with atmosphere, magnetic field and day/night cycle. Couldn't be explained if the world wouldn't have always been spherical (ovoid, but w/e). You don't have such similar things to other theories like the big bang theory. You do not have impossibilities present themselves should you deny a theory.
That is the real test of a theory. If you take the theory away, do illogical things... impossible things start emerging? If so, then said theory is most likely the correct one provided it accounts for all aspects of the question.