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"Show a little respect, we are lawyers and surgeons, we design combat aircraft and captain ships. We are Judges, educators, and law-enforcement officers. And Honor Society high-school kids, too." -- Psalm 73

Yes, but are any of you evolutionary biologists or even gentlemen naturalists? It's fine to have an opinion on things with which you are only vaguely familiar. Unfortunately the bulk of the Creationist familiarity with the subject is drawn from a very few entirely worthless sources. Persistent misinformation alone drives Creationism.

Evolution is a necessity of life. Without the ability to change and adapt life could have been introduced to this planet in great abundance but would have shortly disappeared. There is no other aspect of life of which man is more certain than the fact of evolution.

Without the ability to change and adapt life could have been introduced to this planet in great abundance but would have shortly disappeared.

You cite that as a proof of evolution, I would cite that as a proof that life was created. Let's look at the simplest form of life known, a single celled creature. It is such a complex system (and very ingenious) which it is totally impossible to believe it arose by chance. Two DNA strands, each the mirror image of the other for backup, RNA to tranduce the code into proteins, a feedback system to correct for errors, millions of these DNA base pairs working together to provide the functions of nourishment, reproduction, excretion, growth, etc. necessary in every living being. And all this is a small part of a being of which you can fit a trillion of them in a spoon! To ascribe such a complex, interrelated system to chance is totally ridiculous.

"There is no other aspect of life of which man is more certain than the fact of evolution."

I don't believe any of us do not believe in micro-evolution, that is a verifiable fact, that we all have witnessed.
It is the macro-evolution theory that we have a difficult time with.
It is not a complete theory, not all wrapped up nice and tidy like a Birthday present.
Besides being no verifiable proof that one distinct species can become another entirely new species, (all viewable evolution is within species),
There are gaps and differing scientific views on mechanisms - with the scientific belief that these gaps and views will be smoothed over and proven given enough research.
Essentialy science has FAITH that this will take place. Creationism also take a degree of faith, too.
So if we are talking degrees of faith...
And the sentence on careers was just to illustrate that we are not all rejects from the set of "Deliverence" - we are not mental defectives or morons, despite what we read on FreeRepublic about ourselves.