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I read through the first one. Interesting stuff, things that deserve an answer. I don't find them convincing enough though....many could have other explanations (human tails etc.)

Those web pages are not intended to be "convincing enough" all by themselves. They're just an overview of the several dozen independent lines of evidence by which evolution is confirmed.

Note that each section just gives a few quick examples, and then points the reader to links or citations by which the reader can delve deeper into each subject in order to look at the *massive* amount of specific evidence (and methods) by which evolution is repeatedly confirmed. The more you look into the gritty details of each kind of evidence, the more convincing is the "evolutionary connection".

Presenting even a single one of those topics in enough detail to be more "convincing enough" would cause most readers' eyes to glaze over, unfortunately.

Furthermore, any one of those lines of evidence could perhaps be explained some other way (by some variant of "Last Tuesdayism", if nothing else). But it's the fact that *all* the different lines of predictions from the theory of evolution bear such vast numbers of fruit that really indicates that evolution is clearly well on the right track.

Finally, one thing that gets overlooked a lot is that there's no sensible alternative for why the evidence overwhelmingly falls within the types one would expect to find if evolution is how modern life came about. Note how many of the lines of evidence in those pages are very specific in their predictions and how easily actual results could have fallen within a "non-evolutionary" pattern if evolution had not actually taken place. This leaves anti-evolutionists with a very uncomfortable question -- if God (or whatever/whoever) didn't generate Earthly life via evolution, then why the heck would he/it produce *only* the kinds of results that evolution would? Especially when a different process or designer would have so many other kinds of options available? The conclusion seems to be that either a) evolution actually was responsible for life, or b) whatever/whoever actually made life sure seems to be trying to "fake us out" by making it *look* like evolution did it...