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There will always be critics. Creationists like yourself do not trust the capabilities of man itself, since God is 'omnipotent'. You guys could argue no matter how close science gets, it would all be attributed to God 'throwing us a bone'. Say someone did invent a time machine for us to view the past. Would you consider it legit, or some wacky experiment with no merit, blasphemy?
The same could be said for the current health sciences. Whether you disprove it or not, other creationists may view topic such as genetics a bunch of lies and coincidence that 'if we take this piece of skin and scan it under this thingamajig, we'll get these Xs and Os!'.
We can't see evolution because it is shaped over millions of years, beyond our lifetimes. Any immediate changes would be termed 'mutation' by scientific definition. What we can base evolution on, is obtainable, physical evidence left on the planet by our ancestors and ancestors of other species. But I know what you're thinking. Again, all coincidence that doesn't mean a damn, right? Just as you say evolution is as much a faith is religion, doesn't mean it is false. After all, you believe your religion to be true, yes?
Creationists only base their perception of God and the like on written historical works, supported by organizations and major events such as wars of which all come from The Bible itself. All we have are relics of the past, scientific footprints and written works like the Bible. No one has seen God (as you say, he doesn't want to be seen, thus can hide or erase our memories at will). So does that make your faith any more legitimate than our 'faith'?
They do. They have brains, don't they? Brains store memory, if anything science has shown, removal or damage to certain parts of the brain (eg. cerebrum) will impair memory and alter personality. This is something we know for certain, we can observe immediately. Because of severe brain damage, people we term 'psychopaths' are also said to lack conscience, if literary more than science. It's all relative to the brain.
If anything, it's to do with brain size. Organisms with small brains such as fish still have a conscience; but due to limited processing capability, they quickly forget. Emotions such as joy, fear, etc. But they do fear (for instance) when the moment calls for it, and go out to aid their kind. Same with predators, they have a conscious to kill, a tiger doesn't blindly run against 10 elephants out of instinct, it evaluates the situation for the time best to strike. But if you argue that killing is not moral or involving a conscious, what about humans who kill animals for food? Yes, we too evaluate and think about it before killing (most of the time), so shouldn't we also lack a conscious then, by your definition?
I hope you don't go around beating dogs and 'lesser animals' because you see them as lacking a conscience, by your ideals.
As for you seeing humans as the only intelligent beings in existence and thus, God must have created us alone, right? The universe is too expansive for us to know of other extraterrestrial species. You're probably thinking now, 'Yeah, could be. But until we find them, evolution is a bunch of BS'. Humanity simply isn't as incredible as you believe it to be. We're still very primitive and should civilization survive another 1,000 years, we will be far more understanding and technologically advanced by then (and continue until extinction of humans itself). Just as you can argue we haven't found Aliens yet and are thus unique creations of God, we can say we just don't have the means to now, and that God doesn't exist because we can't find 'him'.
You're going to say we can't find him because he doesn't want us to. Well if he's so all-powerful as your ultimate reason, why even have this debate? Anything we say can be vetoed by that, whether we know the truth or not. Be open to understanding and enforce an argument with believable, comprehendable facts at the 'mortal' level, otherwise it's just plain meritless.
I guess we'll know for sure when Aliens rain down from their motherships and blast us to bits, huh? Or maybe you'll tell us it's God's interpretation of the tribulation and apocalypse?