Deny it all you want. Atheism is a religion, you're just so desperate to avoid the word "Religion" that you're willing to deny an easily identifiable fact.
Atheism for one, is a belief system
For two, it has a theology
For three, it is a religion no matter how hard you nor anyone else argues
If all I ever knew were common composers of average skill and then I found a work like Bach's Mass in B minor, then the natural conclusion would be "This must have taken a lifetime to write!" I would judge it this because I see things through the eyes of common men - being I never knew of such a thing as a musical genius of the likes of Bach. Did Bach really spend a lifetime writing that Mass? No, but according to my good logic I would think it took the composer a lifetime to write something of such fine craftsmanship.
So if God is the Master Composer of all things (far greater than Bach) then wouldn't He be able to work in such a way as to make something appear to take much longer than what it actually did? Surely an Almighty Being could bend, stretch, and compress time and processes as He so desired. If 99.99999999% of all men cannot even compose as well as Bach, then isn't it beyond arrogance to think you really know the details of how the world was created?
Evolution is not a religion? If I recall correctly, and I do, evolutionists "believe" that the world started with a big bang. An explosion, what exploded? Where did this explosive material come from? What caused it to explode? Has there ever been another instance in known history in which an explosion created something? Was this explosion observed and tested as all true science is?
Believe what you want and disbelieve what you want. What it boils down to is that I "believe" in the beginning God, and evolutionists "believe" in the beginning KA-BOOM!
As to there being intelligent life on other planets it simply hasn't been observed! But what about all those UFO sightings? What about them - they are Unidentified Flying Objects! And those out of place fossils that scientists are finding everwere? Those only prove that our ancestors of yesteryear were pretty smart! What about crop circles? Disgusting waste of HUMAN time and effort that quite often includes trespassing and vandalism. etc.
John, if there were truly that many [transitional fossils] then why isn't there hundreds of pictures of them online? I see roughly the same very small few so called transitional forms when I actually do see a fossil. There are hundreds of sites on this stuff, so why don't they post real pictures instead of something out of a sci-fi book?
Am I truly going to find unarguable evidence in fossil warehouses of tons of clear (unshaped by man) transitional species? I have a strong feeling I won't but I would love to visit them.