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To the average church-going person the concept of "evolution" can be very confusing. Most churches still teach that it was God who created us, and children hear the Sunday School stories of Adam and Eve and Noah's Ark. Yet almost every other influence says that this is not true! Most of these people assume that science has proven evolution and end up adopting a "theistic evolution" outlook, believing that evolution took place, somehow guided or started by God. This is an expected result, particularly given that access to the creation "side of the story" is somewhat difficult to come by. Parents need to prepare their children for the onslaught of evolutionary indoctrination that they will encounter.
We have been taught to put our trust in science - that it has, if not all of the answers, a good number of them. Can it be that all of those scientists practicing from an evolutionary viewpoint could be wrong? The explanation is that for day to day scientific work (practical or operational science) it does not matter whether macro-evolution or "atoms to people" evolution is true. Many scientific advances are making use of the concepts of mutation (genetic engineering) and natural selection to improve various aspects of plant and animal life (such disease control), concepts that modern creationists, contrary to what many believe, have no problem with. God designed plants and animals to have a degree of variability which man is free to take advantage of. Scientists are only wrong when they claim that this variability can lead to new, higher order forms of life, or that life could have developed on its own from dead chemicals.