Fish if you would just put yourself in our shoes for a second. It will be hard to do, but if you are serious about learning the truth and open minded like you have said then it may be worthwhile.
When we talk about evolution we can point to many different pieces of evidence like bones, dna, pictures of animals, brainscans, traits, emotional responces, speech, thought processes, on and on. Everything that has been found has worked in evolution.
I know that people that are pushing say that it has not, but it is untrue. Every piece of evidence has worked into the evolutionary theory (remember in science theory is a fact until proven wrong). The things that creationists point to when they say it has holes is what Darwin wrote, but Darwin was a couple hundred years ago and we have much better and more complete information now. Darwin is obsolete. He is like the first bicycle, it had most of the parts, but was nowhere near as well put together as todays.
Now we look at what we are arguing against. The only real reason that they fight so hard to dismiss the information is to protect a book that was written about 1500 years ago. And the Jewish Bible that was written about 3000 years ago (that is regarded as heathenism for praying to false gods (although it is what the new one is based on)). That is the only thing that is causing this argument.
Is there some neat point that they make, of course! I really like those pics that where on the links that you have put up about dinosaurs. But that doesn't mean that there is not other reasons that have better and more actual information supporting it.
See in science (which you almost look at as a religion which it is not. It would be like calling english language a religion) if something comes up that disproves the accepted theory careers are made! People would hurry to get it published, write books and go on world tours. But only after it held up to the questioning of peer revues where the other scientists get to poke their holes.
And only after it holds up to those poking do they get the credit. But that is the problem with intelligent design. It cannot hold up to the poking.
So to most scientist and people that have taken the time to learn about it, it is like they are trying to say that 1+1 = 5. And instead of trying to get the mathematical community behind it, they are going after the uneducated and teaching them this is the way. And then backdooring it to get it taught wrong to the children to get them converted into the 1+1 = 5 crowd to help build up their base of followers.
That may sound stupid, but that is exactly how we feel when people dismiss all this evidence.
And also you should know that all math equations like the Pythagorean Theorem
which can be proven time and time. Is still a theory, not a 'fact' by the definition of the creationists.
