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Yes, I should definitely work on the tone of my posts if I ever want to convince anyone. I believe in evolution because I see random recombination often in my work with bacteria that I use to make large scale DNA preps of plasmids (circular DNA). I can extrapolate that when I multiply it by millions, billions of years. I can also tell that probably the majority of mutations are harmful to the organism. But some aren't. And when you take a small chage and multiply it by billions of years, you get big changes.

But yes, I can totally dig someone not wanting to have something shoved down their throat without asking a lot of questions. That's how I feel about most government policies.

Perhaps some day then, YOU will provide the proof and that will be what we need to solve the question. Thank you for being so reasonable in terms of recognizing the tone of the argument. Too many pro-evolution people fail to recognize that there are substantial holes in their theory that are very obvious to people who are not committed to the theory and particularly to the religious. Those holes have to be addressed and just insulting people or trying to ignore the holes is not going to win people to the pro-evolution side. I'm sure you'll go far with your work.