"shimrod, don't you have anything specific to bring out of your storehouse of scientific knowledge. it is getting hard to keep coming up with original answers to these assertions and appeal to numbers of scientists who believe the same as you."

Oh dear! Here we go again! It's not about belief or faith, pete, it's about evidence. My "storehouse of scientific knowledge" (scant as it is - evolutionary biology is not my field) is not at issue here. Creationism is a faith position whose adherents believe that they are in possession of absolute truth. Science, on the other hand, is a system for investigating reality. Scientists can never be in possession of absolute truth - there is no such thing. But the accumulation of evidence in support of hypotheses can bring them to a better and better understanding of how reality 'works'.

"at a singaround last week someone [not a practising Christian] commented on the weakness of one of shimrods posts,..."

I'm sure that some of my posts are weak - but then I'm not in possession of absolute truth!