No, things don;t become clearer. We’ve unearthed vast quantities of dirt and fossils over the last 150 years, and the fossil record is exactly Huxley what feared it might be. You can assume there were billions of happy accidents that added new genetic material, were not terminal mutations, and gradually built up new species, that time cures all. But I don’t have that kind of blind faith. Neither do the myriad macro-evolutionists who admit natural selection is not a sufficient cause and there must be something else. A fairy tale with complex terminology is still a fairy tale, after all.
Gee, I can’t give a number to a myriad, can you. First, of course the fossil record isn’t complete. Look up how fossils are formed and preserved. There are no happy accidents, mutations may be frequent and random with many killing the organism but those which give the organism an advantage in the environment at the time are passed on.
Creationist and flood geologists are hung up on deep time. All the mountain ranges, flood plains, river valleys, and volcanos were created by a great flood. I guess that Einstein and Rutherford were silly heretics who tried to trick us into believing in radioactive decay and halflifes. Of course there is no such thing as plate tectonics, the observations and evidence are put there by satan to test us.