[DallasMike]

Well, a few more actual biologists than I expected (though many are from small/obscure/non-prestigeous colleges) but the list is still mostly people only tangentally related to evolution.

My experience is that chemists (that was my original degree) are especially doubtful of the claims of evolution. Most of us have no religious problems with evolution but many of us do have problems with the claim that, say, 12 proteins magically appear in the same place at the same time and (name your bodily function) happens.

According to the current theory of evolution, one would expect us to have thousands of currently useless proteins, etc. in our bodies just waiting around to become useful. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Everything seems to (gasp!) have a purpose.

[orionblamblam]

> many of us do have problems with the claim that, say, 12 proteins magically appear in the same place at the same time

No scientist makes such claims. Only Creationists make such claims.

> Everything seems to (gasp!) have a purpose.

Indeed, because anything extraneous tends to be bred out of existence, or it kills the "host," and thus the trait isn't propogated. Yet another bit of evidence for evolution.

[orionblamblam]

> Everything seems to (gasp!) have a purpose.

Sidenote: Assume "Creation."

What purpose for the appendix? Or the useless genetic "junk" in the human genome? Or nipples on men?

[Virginia-American]

According to the current theory of evolution, one would expect us to have thousands of currently useless proteins, etc. in our bodies just waiting around to become useful

Could you please substantiate this claim? It's not any part of biology as I know it.