As I have already said there are some VERY bright people on the Creationist side, and we have been demonized for long enough. I have read their writings, and you do not do them proper justice to suggest the contrary.
The fact that the people are very bright doesn't mean that they have solid scientific evidence, even the most intelligent people can get things wrong. In the absence of you telling us what this compelling evidence is it also hard to tell if you are convinced because they have a strong scientific case or because their arguments are consonant with your own beliefs.
To go along with this, you say you have read their writings. A lot of people can do a lot of writing. In fact, that's what we're all doing here on this forum. Some of us try to at least look up information as we right, so as to maintain accuracy, but this doesn't really count as "research." Neither do books and essays and interviews, which are just about all that ever comes out of the creationist camp.
Let me pre-empt an inevitable argument here:
The Origin of Species was, indeed, a book, and it is, indeed, the foundational work of the currently accepted theory of evolution. But, we do not use the
Origin as a Bible. In fact, many of us haven't even read it. That's because we have real research now to support the theory.
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Nobody Important (just Bluejay)
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