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I don't think there is any issue with Natural Selection within our species, i.e. why subsets of the Human species are highly variable in terms of hair, skin, body size, etc. Look at what we were able to do over just few thousand years with conscious selection of dogs and other species of domesticated animals. Even the probable mix of Neanderthal genetic material I carry as a descendant (mainly) of Caucasian ancestors to me means that those burly fellows with the barrel chests and receding chins (and larger than "modern" human brains) were part of our species and not much more different than a 7 foot Watusi is from a Bush Pygmy.

Where I fell off the evolution band wagon and began to doubt a dozen years of solid indoctrination was the complete lack of evidence for trans-speciation (sp?) and how little physical fossil evidence is actually out there for older extinct primate species. The presumption that those ancient chimps changed over time into modern humans is a nice theory but (IMHO) it has yet to be proven. Plus, since all humans but no other modern primates possess certain traits that are only seen in aquatic mammals (furless, large brained, subcutaneous fat layers, with slightly webbed fingers and toes) I think the experts are looking in all the wrong places for our ancestral stock.

Therefore, if by "evolution" you mean change over time within species (that one can in good faith believe were created by a benevolent G*d) there is no conflict. But self-described "evolutionists" these days tend to also be vocal atheists who push their beliefs well past where physical evidence warrants.

Well, the fossil record seems to indicate that those “intermediate” creatures existed once at a time when other creatures did not exist. The fossil records is a snapshot in time of a breeding population. He provides precious little about where that population PRECISELY came from and where it PRECISELY went. A lot of the pre-modern humans may have been dead-ends, biologically.

Finger webs? Everybody gets those first. The bones show up inside the meat. Then, as muscles are defined one of the last acts is to cut away the webs between the fingers.

All of us get that ~ dogs, cats, people, monkeys.

Fish don't!