PnC writes:
These following quotes are from a top ToE scientist in his book
"The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009)"
Page 8: " Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact. The evidence for evolution is at least as strong as the evidence for the Holocaust, even allowing for eye witnesses to the Holocaust. It is the plain truth that we are cousins of chimpanzees, somewhat more distant cousins of monkeys, more distant cousins still of aardvarks and manatees, yet more distant cousins of bananas and turnips... continue the list as long as desired."
Page 164: " We don’t need fossils — the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution"
As a life long Christian I agree totally and completely with those quotes.
You confuse things. It is not Creationist vs atheist radicals it is Creationist vs reality, honesty and truth.