The reason “evolution” is a theory is that it cannot be proven mathematically nor experimentally replicated. Show me an archeopteryx fossil, give me an artist’s rendering and tell me that “proves” the “theory of evolution” because this or that bone structure looks like a similar one in a dinosaur. This does I believe a disservice to both Darwin and believers. Do the fittest survive? Mostly. Do species adapt? Not surprisingly, yes. Does everything happen by blind statistical chance? Now, that’s a big leap of faith in nothing.
You don’t accept that evolution occurs so naturally my point point re hominids was ignored: you don’t accept the idea that hominids were the ancestors of Man. And Natural Selection is not blind, statistical chance; it is a self-guiding process. I don’t want to get in an argument about ToE. I respect your views.