Great post, as usual.
I'd like to add that the essay you posted on the reptile-to-mammal transition is from the website of the Gulf Coast Section of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.
These are the people who make big $$ prospecting for oil and other minerals. They are 100% behind standard science.
The market has spoken. If some nonstandard form of geology or paleontology were true, you could use it to find oil.
And if some nonstandard form of biology were true, the biotech industry would use it to produce something worthwhile. But for some reason, biotech companies never seem to recruit creationists to conduct their research.