Your welcome @patrick. I felt the same way when I first learned of all this. It was pretty stunning how much of this is missed by “experts” debating this in public. They are just talking past the current understanding of evolution, not ever really engaging.
Same here. That is one thing that keeps me hook. Ironically, BioLogos was never really that engaged with the scientific side. On the other hand, interlocutors from ID (e.g. @pnelson and @Agauger and @vjtorley) have been informative, even when I have disagreed with them. There has been more than one time I’ve received an email from @pnelson with something in the literature I would never have found without him. I first got to know @Agauger and @vjtorley in a exchange about the evolution of placentals and pseudogenes for egg yolks. That was an immensely informative exchange, where I learned a lot. Evolutionary science is just really interesting, and ironically I’ve learned a lot by engaging its critics.