Wintry_Rose, welcome. At age 20, no matter how much studying you think you have done on the matter it isn’t enough. That is why you believe as you do. The brain is a computer that just downloads data and files it. If something has enough believability to it, it goes into the truth file. If something is false it goes into the false file. Since everything in the truth file are believed to be facts then they can’t contradict eachother. This is where our imagination steps in and fills in the gaps or shaves down the blocks so we can construct our belief system on a seemingly sturdy foundation. When we make the decision to believe too many things, our foundations become more imagination then facts. When you start trying to educate people, you have to make sure that their foundations aren’t set. The people here for the most part have not only set these foundations years ago, but have built their reality on them. Neither you, nor me will shake these foundations. The only way you can teach anybody anything is to emphatically remove a piece of that foundation....like I am going to do to you right now.
No matter how much you want to believe it, no matter how many layers of the earth you sift through, you will never find a macro-transitional fossil. Like I suggested how the brain works by accepting facts and bridging them with imagination is exactly how the “educators” sell evolution. It’s a magic trick. You believe the trick because you only look at what they are showing you. Then your brain imagines the rest. There is no “billions of years”. The Earth’s atmosphere was never suitable to spontaneously generate amino acids like taught. It is a lie. I’m not suggesting that the Bible’s record of creation is a scientific document. I don’t believe it was ever intended to be. If you perceive ALL OF THE DATA that history presents, it paints a different picture. My brain tells me Solomon said it best, “Everything that is, was. There is nothing new under the sun.” It appears to me that civilizations rise and fall. After the last destruction of life on Earth, it was again populated by a CREATOR, thousands of years ago, not millions.
Just look at what we have discovered about mammals, especially people. Look at how digestion and the cardiovascular systems work. Just by studying one of those systems alone for a week would open one’s eyes to the fact that it is by design. You live in a structure no doubt. It most likely consists of a skeleton, to give structure, a way to regulate temperature, an electrical system and plumbing. Even without a way for it to reproduce itself, and come equipped with adaptive technology and control the rate at which It populates, you will still conclude that even an eternity wouldn’t be enough time for the elements to spontaneously mine themselves, fasten and arrange the systems in perfect function. If that is your conclusion then you must delete evolution from your truth file because it just doesn’t belong there.