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Then are you saying that you believe the theory of evolution is the most likely possibility based upon the evidences that you see? Is that your view?

Yes. This is no different than any other scientific claim.

How can a black hole suck in all matter and where does it go?

A black hole does not exactly "suck" matter in. A black hole is an extremely dense collapsed star producing such a strong gravitational pull that anything near it, including light, "falls" inside. The matter falls toward the singularity, though where the matter goes exactly is not entirely determined, and likely depends upon whether or not the singularity is spinning. For a spinning singularity, the matter will likely collide, but it is not known what will happen to matter reaching a point where spacetime curvature is infinite. A spinning singularity could potentially eject matter out the other side. I fail to understand how this relates to intelligent design.

How can the universe expand if the universe by definition, is the "universe"?

Your question makes little sense. The expansion of the universe is the increase in the total amount of "space". More specifically, it is a conutinual increase of the distance between matter in the universe.

These are retorical questions so please don't ask me to prove them

What would I ask you to prove? Your questions have well-understood answers.

There are lots of things in this universe for which there are no credible explanations.

Please provide an example of such a "thing".

When I was a youngster they told me nothing could go faster than the speed of light. Now they're saying that may not be true.

When were you told this? Please provide a reference.

I wouldn't dismiss things that have no credible explanation. That is often the way science advances.

Unless evidence exists for a claim, there is no reason to consider it. How can a claim for which there exists no means of testing be evaluated?

Before you can move to a "human being" you have to know what is life? If you have a definition what is it? Don't you think it would be good to know if pulling a fetus out of the womb and crushing it's scull constitute life?

You are again missing my point. The dispute regarding abortion is not over what constitutes "life" in individual cells. The debate, which is not a scientific dispute, is the physical characteristics required for a specific configuration of cells to be called a "human being".

I believe he's referring to superluminal group velocities which usually employ quantum tunneling to attain velocities higher than the speed of light. The media picked up on these experiements and distorted them, neglecting to point out or washing over that, indeed, it is not possible for phase velocities to be higher than the speed of light. Phase velocities are the components of waves (light, de Broglie, etc) which actually contain information.

Thus, the fact that nothing can travel faster than light is a consequence of the fact that no *information* can travel faster than light. More simply, without information... there's nothing.

It's a complicated point that can be confusing. Even though the group velocities can be faster than light, the actual event is contained in the information of the wave: the phase velocity.