Hi Ichi,
Others have taken the tactic of discrediting your quotes from Ruse, Keith and Wald, saying that the quotes are "Creationist lies."
I'm going to take a different tactic:
Who cares what Ruse, Keith, and Wald may or may not have said?
Regardless of the authenticity of those quotes, they still represent an Appeal to Authority, a logical fallacy.
This means that their statements, even if valid, are still irrelevant and do nothing to support your argument.
The
person making an argument is irrelevant. Only the
argument itself, its logical consistency, and the evidence supporting it are relevant.
In teh case of the Theory of Evolution...there is more than ample evidence, both deduced from evidence in the fossil record and cladistic taxonomy, and directly observed in genetics, breeding experiments in the laboratory, direct observation of populations in the wild, etc that supports the theory that life's diversity increases over generations through a process of descent with modification guided by natural selection.
Claiming that people pursue evolution with "religious fervor" is irrelevant. Claiming that it functions as an alternative for supernatural Creation is both irrelevant and
wrong (the
vast majority of those who support the Theory of Evolution as accurate are in fact theists who believe in God. Claiming that evolution implies Spontaneous Generation is factually incorrect (the Theory of Evolution makes no statement on the origin of
life, only on the origin of new
species as they arise from pre-existing life). The arguments put forth in your quotes are irrelevant and/or wrong, and do not in any way refute the Theory of Evolution.
If you'd like to discuss the Theory of Evolution in detail, including attempting to refute it with evidence and logical argument, propose a new thread for the Science forums where we'll all be held to those standards.
Attacking
any position with authoritative quotes, however, does nothing to assail an actual argument. It works quite well in politics, granted, but not in a moderated debate forum like this one. Appeals to Authority, Popularity, Emotion, Consequence, etc are all just logical fallacies and mean that any argument based on them is invalid.