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Those who are anti-Creation have no trouble overlooking the obvious lapses of evidence. As I've said, they hold up a chip of bone and ascribe entire behavioral patterns to it.

You are correct, the absence of all that fossilized evidence is a huge hole in their argument, as is the much sought after 'missing link' between the unevolved primates and modern man. They will never find the missing link because it does not exist.

The principle schizophrenia or hypocrisy in their argument is that they claim that all these sophisticated and highly intelligent and incredibly successful evolutionary changes occurred because they had millions of years to do so - that is, because evolution occurred gradually. That time span would then tend to set them up for finding all of that evidence. Unfortunately for them, they've found very little evidence relative to the implications of their theory.

On the other hand, the magnificence of what would have to be the evolutionary changes that are manifest in the incredible varieties of life on this planet, given the lack of a long track record of fossilized evidence, tends to point to a much more recent beginning and a beginning that is more in lines with the concept of an original creation by G-- of the many varieties of life (which have, in fact evolved over the millennia, but only within the genetic codes with which G-- assigned them).

I really enjoy these discussions with folks who are truly open minded and seeking to uncover the truth. Then there is another band who use their theory of evolution as a veil for either an arrogant placing of the Self before G--, as an outright assault upon G--, or as but another of their arguments that He does not exist. These are the ones that you cannot discuss the issue with but find yourself in an aporia (an argument that cannot be resolved).