My difficulties with the General Theory of Evolution are not primarily religious, although the knee-jerk scorn of religion on the part of many Darwinists is disturbing.
It's a scientific problem. It just doesn't make sense. It's bad science, dogmatic in the worst way.
I thought so when I studied Darwin in school and college, and I think so even more after considering the matter and reading further discussions of the difficulties. DNA was unknown when I first studied biology. The macro difficulties were already a deal breaker, but the difficulties on a micro level are even worse.
And there is a fundamental problem underlying all the rest: Take away the Logos, the principle of rationality built into the universe, and take away the philosophical concept of realism, and you take away rationality itself. I have argued this point with a philosopher friend of mine who works in the field of artificial intelligence. In a purely materialistic and accidental universe, rationality has no real meaning.
You wrote in post 227: "In a purely materialistic and accidental universe, rationality has no real meaning."
Reply: You actually posted this. It is breathtaking. It's a keeper.
Let's imagine an ID universe. Where, exactly, would rationality fit in? If your Faith says that disease is sent by a god to afflict the insufficiently devoted, and science says "wait a minute", there are germs, where do you stand? If Faith says the earth and Atlantanisans are the center of the universe, where would you step in to say, "wait a minute"?