My House Did not have a Builder (or did it?)

[Mister Agenda]

In regard to your signature, I've seen that type of faith in pretty much all belief systems, including atheism. It's the nature of a belief system. Once you believe you found your keys, you stop looking for them.

Atheism isn't a belief system. Neither is theism.

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 I've heard a few times that evolution has to take such a long time to occur, that the earth has to be that old in order for the evolution to take place.  If I'm wrong about that, then I apologize.

No need to apologize, but you're wrong about that.

But if evolution doesn't take that long to occur, then why isn't there so much more evidence of it? Not only in observation, but in paleontological finds and archaeological finds, etc?

How much evidence should there be? There are literally millions of tons of fossils in museums. You can make finding fossils a hobby and build quite a collection. How did you determine how much evidence (paleontological and archaeological) finds there should be if the theory of biological evolution is correct? What's the magic number of tons of fossils that would convince you? How many lineages have to be traced before you would find it convincing?

We have fossils that illustrate the transition not only from ape to human, but reptile to mammal and hippo-like creature to whale. Are you one of those who, for each new link found, insists that there are now two more missing links to either side of it?

If evolution is false, we should not have been able to have a series of fossils that illustrate any gradual change of species, such as hyenas branching off from felines. Genetic studies shouldn't match the fossil story if the fossils don't represent common descent. And we shouldn't have the same retroviral insertions as other great apes if we are not related to them by descent...in fact, it's impossible to explain them except by common descent or the deception of some being with the power to fake our genetic heritage for its own fathomable purposes, a being that by definition must be a liar and a trickster.