What about the fact that mitochondrial DNA evidence supports an evolutionary tree similar to the one produced by making deductions based on the anatomy of organisms? If species A and species B diverged a long time ago, they will have mutated in different ways, while if species C is closely related to B, it will have most of B's mutations.
Also, with your chimp example, why would only the chimp fossilize, and none of the humans? If real events occured in that fashion, we might have mammal fossils discovered alongside Cambrian creatures such as trilobites, and we could therefore assume that the trilobites and mammals lived in the same time period. Such fossils have not been found so it can be assumed that trilobites went extinct before mammals evolved.
There are plenty of transitional fossils and no major gaps in the fossil record. The transitional fossils include species intermediate between reptiles and birds, reptiles and mammals, fish and amphibians, and land-dwelling mammals and aquatic mammals like whales, to name a few. If you like, I can find you links with more information on each of these transitions. I would like to know what, if any, gaps or missing links evolutionists expect to find that haven't been found so far.
I admit that when a line is drawn between two fossil species, it creates the question of what existed between the two, but that doesn't mean that for a phylogenetic tree to be drawn, you have to include every single organism's family tree.
Creationism is fraught with forgeries, more so than is the Theory of Evolution. Look at people like Kent Hovind and Jack Chick, among others. Creationists will make up evidence to support their side, and then will refuse to retract it when it is shown to be false. Human fossils such as the Piltdown Man and Nebraska Man, when shown to be hoaxes, are no longer treated as evidence for anything.
It seems to me that creationism is merely a psuedoscience, while evolutionary biology rests on solid evidence. There is no evidence for or against a Creator so it is pointless, to me at least, to assume that all the organisms alive today did not evolve into their present state.
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