I am a scientist also, having a BS, MS, and ABD. Trained in mathematics and engineering. Evolution is not science, it is a world view. It was promoted before the age of the internet and knowledge of the complexity of the cell and the structure of DNA.
The phrase “it is settled science”, that is a political statement not a scientific one. You can remove the praise of Evolution, which is both nothing and unknowing, from every aspect of your science and nothing is lost. Less is more.
There is no evidence that evolution has ever occurred. The similarities between species is an argument by association, which is a very weak form of argument. In statistics, “correlation is not causation” comes to mind.
Adaptation within species is not an argument. The closer one looks at adaptation the more one sees that it is a feature of the software.
Evolution is a mathematical tax for closed minds. The math or maths do not support either the end results or the computer code that we see. It is a 2^2^k problem, with k being the number of factors. Plug that number into a spreadsheet and see how high k can go before your computer cannot contain the number. Somewhere around 9 or 10.
Christianity is also a world view, but the correct one. It gives credit to God the Word for the creation of everything out of nothing, which is not something that can be measured by the human mind. If you give credit to something else, like evolution/chaos/nothing, you are in Jesus’ words “denying Me before men”.
Sorry, but you can get an advanced degree in mathematics and engineering without understanding the basic principles of evolution (both the process and the theory), but doing so in a life science is difficult, if not impossible. Determining the evolutionary relationships of a specific protein across different species was an integral part of my doctoral research and remains a fundamental function of a large body of biological research.
Also, FYI, the concept of evolution is thousands of years old. Darwin did not invent evolution, any more than Watson invented DNA.