Marion, your post is the most perceptive and intelligent comment I have seen yet in this thread, and really leaves little more that needs to be said.

Wolfgang, go and engage in some new evolutionary experiments with a jackass. You may succeed in creating a new species in the process.

Strinsinger - I believed implicitly in the theory of evolution all my life until quite recently. I now neither believe nor disbelieve it. I think it's probably partially correct, but probably not the whole story. I have NEVER in my life believed in the theory of creationism. I have ALWAYS believed in gravity (duh!), but I think that we may not yet fully understand the force of gravity and how and why it workds...although some of us certainly think we do, no doubt. There's nothing out there that some self-satisfied prig doesn't think he fully understands. Just ask him.