[SiGeek]

My point is I think I do understand these evolutionary arguments and find them unsatisfactory. But I am willing to listen to, and in fact I seek, new arguments.

So I just come to these threads for the insults, really! Glutton for punishment I guess. Insults to me, my profession (whatever that is), my alma mater (where ever that was). Not to mention the reading assignments and list after list of links.

After BeHoldAPaleHorse's reply, I need to add screaming to the list of predictable responses : )

...large generalizations

Actually I think the large generalizations are part of the problem for me. Extrapolating a long, meandering, complex change from a tiny observed change is problematic for me.

[liberallarry]

My point is I think I do understand these evolutionary arguments

I've assumed that you do.

Actually I think the large generalizations are part of the problem for me

Too bad.

Even Einstein could not understand quantum theory or reconcile it with relativity...and string theory is so tenuously connected to reality that even its adherants are not sure it's anything more than a mathematical construct.

I'm assuming you find religious explanations more satisfying. But do you subject them to the same critical standards? Do you, for example, find the story of Noah's ark believable?