I know no one who denies that evolution of species exists. It is a demonstrable fact.

I know many, many, many, many people who do not believe that evolution has ever created a NEW species.

Personally I think these issues are interesting until they get turned into politics and people head for a "camp" and get completely rigid in their thinking (which is how you are arguing, Jim, tho I suspect you actually CAN think better than that, but who knows?)

Anyhow, as a science evolution should itself be able to be challenged. Good science needs to be challenged, it then proves its points or changes and gets stronger. Therefore I think new species is an interesting study for evolutionary scientists.

You are not saying what you think comes into force at those critical evolutionary junctures, but may I assume you are thinking the judeo-christian god acts on matter in order affect it? You could just as well think that the alien overloards zap matter along the assembly line of their earth experiment. I think you mean the first, but they work out to be much the same.

And the reason these two scenarios are similar is that a force is acting on matter from without. (one a corporeal, and one a non-corporeal source) Like the matter has evolved a bit and then hits a brick wall until a force acts on it. Personally, I think there is a non-corporeal force that acts, but not from without, it is part of the very nature of matter - down to the smallest part and up thru universes. That view argues for a self evolving, or self actualizing universe, humans included.

If you see matter as separate from god then god needs to manage evolution. And I know that sometimes christian theology says that matter is completely inert and needs divine intervention (see Michaelangelo's god creates adam) but there is some theological debate as to how much and how often intervention is needed.

I, and many others, view the Old Testament as a historical type document that quantifies the history of the Jews and their beliefs.

And yes, I believe that God created heaven and earth and all else in 6 days.... He just didn't tell us the length of his days. Each moment may have been a million years. We just don't know.

So IF someone finally proves that a NEW species was created through evolution I see that as just another brick in the wall and will be happy to accept it.

But no one has. All we have is conjecture and theories.

I would be just as happy to accept proof that God used ID, for lack of a better term.

For me, and many like me, it is the knowledge that He did, not HOW he did, that is important.

I think it would be helpful if you try applying a bit of open mindedness and tolerance.

Yes, I will agree with you that those scientists were terrible. And if they'd worked for me I'd fire them then fire myself for allowing such an unscientific environment to develop without oversight. They were working with political advocacy and not science. A human failing which should be called out.

And I will say that global warming is not caused ONLY by human activity. The sun theory you mention about why there is global warming measured on every planet out to a moon of Neptune (don't know if they can measure after that) has been discredited to a large extent. Another theory is that the solar system is passing thru some sort of magnetic field. It is possible I guess.

Nonetheless, human pollution is a major factor in the earth's climate. And looking at the gulf disaster I'd say one reason human pollution is dangerous is that the substances human release into the atmosphere are never found there naturally. In the gulf, not only is oil present but now deoderized kerosene which acts on the oil and makes the oil behave in very non-oil ways (breaking it up and changing its buoyancy).