If I were PH, I wouldn't answer such a question. The OJ Jury "had a shadow of a doubt". They were completely wrong, but they had a shadow of a doubt. PH could post to you till he's blue in the fact and no doubt you'd "have a shadow of a doubt". Check out his List-O-Links for mountains of evidence if you're truly interested.
The anti-evolutionists at the Discovery Institute and ICR have all the believability of Holocaust deniers. The handful of pseudo scientists at those places scream "EVOLUTION IS IN CRISIS" based on zero original research, as conferences gather in the Galapagos with apparently hundreds of researchers with zero doubt about the fundamental fact of evolution.
I'm not a scientist. But I can spot Intelligent Design quacks selling snake oil when I see them. Like the "Duke" and the "Dauphin" in Mark Twains Huck Finn, revival preaching and snake oil selling seem to go hand in hand.
Well, I am PH, and I had already shrugged off the question before I got to your excellent post. All they have to do is hum a few notes and I can recognize the song.
Or to use another analogy: just as the lack of WMDs proves Saddam wasn't a threat, and that Bush supporters are all Fox News-listening robots, the lack of transitional fossils proves evolution isn't a fact, and that scientists are all Darwin-worshipping acolytes/intergalactic sarcasm off