I'm sorry CamoJohn, but I don't think there is a mutually acceptable common ground (between scientists and creationists I assume) on the basis that "evolution happens, but maybe there's a puppetmaster". You are asking the scientists to take on board your personal belief in the puppetmaster, when you won't take on board their desire for empirical evidence of that puppetmaster. Of course, if observation and experiment began to show evidence for some supernatural entity controlling our existence, then that would be a different matter.

Scientists don't need some omniscient deity to help them because they don't understand exactly how evolution works, many are busy trying to find out themselves. When I find a dinosaur bone in the rock, my sense of wonder and awe at how it got from being a living, breathing animal to the fossil in my hands is not in anyway diminished because I don't think God, Allah or the Great Pixie was not involved in any way in it's getting there.

"some evolutionary changes seem quite rediculous (sic)"

Such as?