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The moral is beware of overenthusiasm concerning the fossil record. Bronto was a rather mild and insignificant mistake -- unlike say Piltdown man. I'll provide a personal dentist-office epiphany. I was reading one of his waiting room magazines - I think it was Scientific American -- which featured an article speculating that phororhacos -- the large flesh-eating South American bird -- had lived in Florida. The evidence provided for this speculation concerned the discovery of bones originally thought to belong to an eohippus. I remember thinking "so much for the fossil record."

Evolutionary science, like all natural sciences, is vulnerable to over-enthusiasm, fraud, and mistakes. That does not somehow render it not a science. Nobody faked the Grand Canyon. Nobody faked the painfully obvious fact that successive geological layers yield successive biological features which have an obvious morphological serial flow to them.

Nobody faked the extra-ordinary correlation between the morphological fossil flow and the tree of relationships established by DNA mutational distance mapping.

You have mistaken the Punch and Judy show at the entrance of the library for the library itself, and judged the library on the basis of the Puch and Judy show.

Evolutionary science, like all natural sciences, is vulnerable to over-enthusiasm, fraud, and mistakes. That does not somehow render it not a science.

I didn't say it wasn't. I was saying abiogenesis was kaput, remember?

Nobody faked the Grand Canyon. Nobody faked the painfully obvious fact that successive geological layers yield successive biological features which have an obvious morphological serial flow to them.

Nobody faked the Cambrian explosion either.

Nobody faked the extra-ordinary correlation between the morphological fossil flow and the tree of relationships established by DNA mutational distance mapping.

I'm reserving judgement on this one. I think there is some dispute on the molecular clock.

Remember, the biggest challenge evolutionists face now is irreducible complexity. If this challenge prevails other explanations must be found for the things you mentioned such as mutational distance mapping and the fossil record.