Colleges today tend to breed fanatics rather than skeptics, and this is symptomatic of that behavior. You will have reached an real educational threshhold when you are _not_ so convinced that the educational orthodoxy already has all the answers.
So go ahead - see if your confidence that the evolutionary establishment already has answers to this article are well placed. I have quite a few friends who once had just such a point of view (cf. many of the accounts in the recent creationist book Persuaded by the Evidence), until they started trying to prove out their classroom-inculcated beliefs.
Merry Christmas
You might be right. I have a history of severe mental illness so there might be something there clouding my reasoning and perception. I wrote the first comment more out of confusion. Now I am angry that there are far too many unanswered questions with regard to phylogeny and population genetics and how they could or could not fit into a creationist defense (Williams uses neither data source). There are some things that Williams did NOT challenge that are frustrating. It’s more what he didn’t mention than what he did. When he says “no explanation”, that’s the worst.
Things are not as they seem. I don’t give a s*** about evolution or about science anymore but it’s not easy to just push them aside when there are unanswered questions. The problem is that I have not found a thorough analysis yet and there are so many things that authors like Williams could be doing but don’t do with their arguments. I have never been able to find a complete resolution to the question of the origins (or creation) of life though I am pretty sure about the compatibility of mainstream evolutionary with Genesis. You mentioned a book called “Persuaded by the Evidence”. What is that like?
This is going to be a horrible Christmas season for me. I hope that yours will be much better.