This of course, is predicted in Scripture. Romans 1 tells us that we would NOT acknowledge God as Creator and we will think we are wise, but have been made fools. God gives these people reprobate minds to the point they believe homosexuality is normal.( Rom 1:26-27) Now we don't even know if a boy is a girl or not, so how far is science willing to go before straight jackets are required? God says we will suppress the truth. When talking about almost any subject, the moment Scripture is mentioned, we hear, "What does that have to do with anything?" God says the proof of a Creator is all around you. Any thinking person should be able to see that any organism that is "born" needs something to eat. Did they eat rocks? If there is nothing to eat, how did it ever reproduce? How did it ever find food if it had no eyes? If it ate something, how did it know how to digest the food? We are without excuse to know that God Created the Creation. "Professing themselves wise they became fools". You said I'm not the ruler of what evolution is or isn't. I suppose you are wiser than me. If you want to believe a cow was the forerunner of a whale or vice versa, have at it. If a chicken can lay an egg and a lizard comes out, that's supposed to be "punctuated equilibrium". Wait a year or two and "All the textbooks will have to be rewritten". The Bible has never changed, yet God predicted everything that we are experiencing today. Scripture says it will be as in the days of Noah and Lot when He comes to judge the world. God hasn't repented for Flooding the planet and burning up Sodom. Yet somehow we continue to shake our fist in His face.
How many times have you had to rethink what you think? Piltdown man? Java man? How many new creatures have been built from an extinct hog's tooth? How many animals have been built from a number of animal bones collected from a scattering over a mile of dirt?
I have encyclopedias and anthropology books from the 20's and 30's, 60's up to today, and one common theme in each one is they are considered wrong today. This "theory" has changed so many times most people can't keep up with the latest tale. Even top scientists admit today that Darwinism has failed. This "shotgun" method of science just doesn't work. There are books of anomalies that disprove the latest theories, yet it is pushed endlessly until finally someone changes it to accommodate some anomaly or two. In the mean time, Nobel Prize winners at put to shame and lose their grant money if they don't rubber stamp the latest meme.
I won't be arguing scripture with you, except perhaps to notice how remarkably accurate it turns out to be when you consider God inspired it to explain His creation to mostly illiterate shepherds & farmers some 3,000+ years ago.
I concede that if you strictly insist on a traditional "literal" Biblical interpretation, it's just a "bridge too far" to cross scientifically without God's help.
chuckles: "There are no transitional fossils to show any evolution.
showing pictures of monkeys following apes and apes following gorilla's, and gorilla's following a man doesn't prove they are connected in any way."
Of course if your "scientific" standard is it must meet your Biblical expectations, then none of evolution theory can satisfy you.
But as a natural explanation of confirmed observations, evolution has remarkable common sense & predictive abilities.
As for "transitional fossils" they satisfy the theory and there's no other natural explanation I can think of for them.
chuckles: "How many times have you had to rethink what you think?
Piltdown man?
Java man?
How many new creatures have been built from an extinct hog's tooth?
How many animals have been built from a number of animal bones collected from a scattering over a mile of dirt?"
Piltdown man, Java man & Nebraska man are all "hoaxes" from at least 100 years ago.
Indeed, Java man is today classified legitimate, among the homo erectus species, of which there are now dozens of other individual examples found.
The important point to remember is that over the past 150+ years billions of individual fossils representing hundreds of thousands of species have been discovered, classified & stored in museums, universities & other collections around the world.
That's a lot of physical evidence to be handwaving away.
chuckles: "This "theory" has changed so many times most people can't keep up with the latest tale."
Sounds to me like you're confused about the differences between scientific facts, hypotheses, theories & laws.
Facts are observed & confirmed such that, for examples, fossils are facts & DNAs are facts.
Hypotheses are untested explanations of facts, perhaps even untestable -- for example, origin of life ideas are likely to remain untestable hypotheses long, long into the future.
A theory, like evolution, is an explanation which has been tested and confirmed.
A scientific "law" is simply a mathematical expression of a confirmed theory.
All theories are accepted tentatively until new facts or better explanations can falsify them.
And for a major idea like evolution, that means nearly daily discoveries each with a potential to falsify or modify existing theory.
New discoveries are one thing that makes science so exciting to real scientists.
chuckles: "Even top scientists admit today that Darwinism has failed"
I know of no real scientist who denigrates Darwin's work, except to the degree that science itself has advanced over the past 150+ years.
So the remarkable thing about Darwin is not that he was wrong on many details, but that he got the basic idea of evolution right: 1) descent with modifications plus 2) natural selection accumulating over long times can lead to new biological forms = evolution.