Some "speculation." You disallow evidence for what you reject on religious grounds.
Evidence is evidence. The trail you construct from the evidence is not evidence, but a construct of reasonable conjecture.
Evolution is an abstract theory of common sense. Most of it is not testable. Common descent has not been directly observed, but may be reasonably inferred. Just because fossils look alike does not mean their representative life forms are historically derived from one another. If such reasonable inferences truly constitute "science" then so do the reasonable inferences of those who attribute organized matter perfroming specific functions to intelligent design.
The notion that matter organizes itself to perform specific functions by virtue of non-intelligent forces is but an article of faith. Objective reality offers numerous examples of intelligent agents causing matter to be organized for specific functions. It does not, however, offer a person by the name of "nature," or an entity by the name of "chance" to declare scientifically what is the cause of organized matter, e.g. particle matter that does not dissolve into chaos.