Yeeeeesh! Decades of properly disciplined scientific observation have established the indisputable fact that evolution has occured and is occuring. Is that a defensible statement? If so, I am fairly certain that every party to this discussion except Pete and Iona has effectively indicated agreement with that statement. If someone here had made only the isolated statement "Evolution is true", it would be appropriate to critique it as a "faith statement". But to pull the three words out of an extended context that indicates the writers full accordance with science and the scientific method, and brand him as a borderline fundamentalist/creationist, is absurd.