“very clear geological record of a progression from primitive, simple life to more complex life”
No there is not! There is a bunch of strata in which a bunch of dead creatures were clearly sorted according to density & a few other factors (such as birds being on top because they would naturally be the last to get caught by a cataclysmic water event) by a massive water action, and a theory which ludicrously orders these animals in a timescale like deepest = oldest. There is a system in which fossils are dated by the rocks in which they are found, and rocks which are dated by the fossils that are found in them.
And all through the dead things we find, we find clear, delineated KINDS of animal! NEVER do we see changes from one type to another type.
And contradictions ABOUND in the evolution theory. How do you evolve a blow hole, for example? Breathing is either yes, or no. If no, the animal dies.
The theory is DEAD IN THE WATER. Even many pro-evolutionists are admitting it now. The most honest ones will tell you they only believe in it because they don’t want to believe in God.
I am not claiming such.
But the geological record is clear. For over two billion years, all we see are simple life forms - stromatolites and other such organisms. Then we start seeing more complex critters, prior to the Cambrian. Then we get fish in the Cambrian. Amphibians, I believe, in the Devonian. Reptiles later. Mammals don't appear until the Triassic. Birds don't appear until the Jurassic.
So the problem is - you demand transitional forms. But that basically is immaterial for what I am saying. The progression in the fossil record is clear. Simple moves to complex over great periods of time. One can say ID is behind that, or one can postulate evolution. My beef is with those who concoct wild theories that exist in complete defiance of the geological record.
That is pure horsecrap. My paleoentology professor in college was a devout Christian who believed the Bible said who and evolution said how. He was not going to shoehorn what the rocks told him into Biblical literalism (which itself often relies on interpretation).
Too silly for words. I see I am dealing with another Young Earther. Which means serious debate is basically worthless. Have a good day.