I appreciate your well thought out post, excuse me for only highlighting part of it.

I'll only speak for myself, as OP my post had nothing to with "creationism", but was instead about exposing the gaping holes in what evolution says, and the curious circumstances that surrounded it being instilled as unchallengable fact in people's minds for so long.

The problem I have is with science, or better said, TPTB, expecting people to accept evolution as fact when the evidence doesn't nearly support the level of acceptance they seem to want.