I believe in a special creation of life on this earth by God - recently - perhaps ~6000-10000 years ago.
Yet at #22 you admitted that:
"Most of the fossil evidence for "pre-humans" won't even cover a coffee table".
Why does such fossil evidence exist if life on this earth was created " - recently - perhaps ~6000-10000 years ago" ? And where do the many 'tables' of neanderthal fossils fit in to your belief?
I see no cognitive dissonance. The Earth was created perfect, man rebelled, so God's creation began to degenerate. Genetic mutations + bottleneck effects could have easily lead to degenrate forms of "humanity" after the fall. My faith actually expects to see hominid type forms that are not quite human but close.