PS When you say that “Pitman doesn’t have anything new to say there anyway,” should I take that to mean you have read the entire contents of his website?
You are the one linking what the bible may have to say about science to ID. Again, if design was to provide the most robust theory of origin for something like a cell, how does that prove anything about the bible or the biblical god?
The fossil record, on its own, would not prove anything about evolution. It would suggest it as a possibility, certainly, but until Darwin and Wallace came up with a mechanism, the idea of evolution wasn’t taken seriously. Similarly, Alfred Wegener based his theory of continental drift on evidence from the shape of the continents, the distribution of fossils and mountain ranges and so on, but his ideas were not accepted because there was no plausible mechanism that would cause continents to move. Not until the discovery of seafloor spreading fifty years later was the idea of plate tectonics fleshed out and very quickly accepted.
As to Pitman’s site, I read the page you suggested, so my comment is restricted to the content you linked as relevant. Is there new important stuff on other parts of the site?