Why do we care about the origin of man?

What is this infatuation with determining how man became to be? What value is it to those who are forced to memorize and recite the theory of evolution? No one was taking notes or running a video or audio recorder while man wandered the earth before some thousands of years ago when someone decided to write something on a still wet piece of clay. What does it matter to our existence that we know where we came from? Sure it's nice to know this fact when thinking in the short term so we know what kind of family we are part of. The apple does not fall far from the tree. But what if we came from something we are not willing to accept?

If evolution is fact, then is it obvious that we must consider what we will continue to evolve into. Will we grow any extra limbs? Will we go hairless? I know for the last several hundred years men have been shaving the hair off their face, but it's not evolved away. I'm proof by being bald that men who are bald are not evolved away, but if I don't find somebody soon I guess there will be one bald gene die off in this world, so maybe the jury is still out on that.

What about bears? To me the bear (pick any brand) are the most perfect creatures except for two very important factors. One is the opposing thumb and the other is the ability to think with reason and constructively. If these guys just had the brain of humans and worked around the handicap of having claws instead of fingers, man would either be farm animal or hunted for the flavor of his thighs.

The question of where man came from is as important as the question of where did Tom Cruise come from ( if you care see here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129/bio ). No one can really know and at least not in the current state of existence we will never know. This subject serves no purpose but to muddy the minds of students and further justify having another few questions on some exam. It's not like in math where repetition and doing (seeing) as many equations and problems help prepare one for more complicated problems. Practice, practice and then rehearse and rehearse, face as many possible approaches or variables and equations and when the game (exam) is on you will be more prepared. In the Army it's called training and simulations.

What does knowing whether some observations some "naturalist" from England made on some Pacific island many years ago implied that some animals adapted to their environment over some number of generations. I don't care for either evolution (guess the bears don't either) or for "intelligent" design, though I am sure God appreciates we are not calling in "unintelligent" design (but maybe it should be something like "laughable pitiful" design). If it was truly some "intelligent" design I would think we would have wings like Archangel from the X-Men comics. Maybe we would be like your favorite mutant, then it really would be "intelligent" design. I suspect there is a combination of all the above plus something else in the equation we have no idea about. It's a mystery that we won't solve with the current records and data. Maybe some long dead folks named Adam and Eve know (and are laughing at the fools trying to prove that which is not provable).

Oh, I have wondered about the evolution of the dinosaurs. Those huge and beautiful creatures surely had to be victims of evolution. Or were they?