"...know the evidence for it......" then keith you list a few things, but do not say how those things are evidence for evolutionism.
in fact creationists use the same as evidence for creation and intelligent design.
dmcg, yep, you got "modern" right. what you did not, was the context.
my point ,was, that having belief in creation did nothing to hamper scientists. bill nye made a major play on that angle ,and ken ham demonstrated that it is far from the case of the technological poverty he imagines , historically or currently.
but I have demonstrated how evolutionary think has delayed /hindered science. and of course, Darwin was not the first by a long chalk to conjecture evolutionism/long ages, though he was the first to gain popularity for it.
heres a link I stumbled across when trying to find info on your devices evolution idea.
some of it, I am not sure how it fits exactly with either of our views but interesting stuff.
www.viewzone.complasticbrain22.html
I am quite sure st paul would not support your syncretism !