Hello foreward,
I appreciated your post. I wanted to respond to a couple points, not to nitpick, but hopefully to clarify or add footnotes to what you wrote.
It is stupid for creationists to deny that species can adapt. ; We as humans adapt everyday to changes in our world, so yes evolution does exist and I think that if god exists and created us, he did this ;with this possibility of change, sometimes necessary to survival.
I'm sure you're probably aware of this, but just as a footnote for any nascent evolution students out there, adaptation by an individual to changing circumstances is very, very different from biological adaptation. So technically, the fact that you and I can "adapt" to a new environment has nothing to do with evolution. Biological adaption means that the physical organism actually changes (across generational lines - not within an individual).
My only argument for creation is simply the intelligence which seems to exist behind everything
It is true that many things seem to indicate intelligence, inasfar as they seem like things we might design given the same engineering problem. But nature is very large and very diverse, and there are many examples that strike as as weird, wrong, or even cruel. Surely flies whose young hatch inside the mother, devouring her to death, represent a strange and twisted mind, if indeed one was involved in the design process.
To me, it makes better sense to say that if an intelligent mind was involved, it was in setting up the framework of life, of which evolution is one basic design principle.
No one has a leg to stand on. Proofs are rare. It's just hard for me to believe it all came out of chance.
I just want to remark that chance is only one half of the evolution equation. It is true that the present diversity of life could never have come about by chance. But that is not what evolution is proposing. We use "chance" to describe the genetic changes that happen, which we cannot predict, seemingly at random.They very well may be controlled by very definite rules which, if completely known, would allow us to predict them. But at any rate, that point aside, this so-called chance provides the genetic diversity from generation to generation, but the exact opposite of chance, namely the cold, hard fist of reality, does the selecting.
Think of it as a two-part machine. One part spews out widgets of varying shapes and sizes. The other part tries them out and throws away everything that doesn't work well enough.
Anyway, like I said, I just wanted to add a few points for any beginning evolution students out there who might not know these things yet.
SNG