Wiccans, is there something about the Christian religion that you can acknowledge as admirable?

The detractors are correct in a sense. Micro-evolution is not really evolution, but adaption. Certain traits can be bred into a species (e.g.breeding dogs for hunting) or they may naturally adapt to stressors in the environment (such as a greater percentage of dark moths surviving in England when the trees and buildings were covered with soot).

These are not any kind of evolution, because there was no change in species; a dark moth could still mate with a lightly colored moth of the same species. Our understanding of adaption allows us to breed specialty plants, fruits, or animals, but there is no evolutionary change. What you refer to as macro-evolution is the concept of true evolution where, due to environmental pressures and over a certain period of time one species gives rise to a uniquely different species (through a series of lesser transitions).

As a Christian, I don't have an issue with this, but neither have I seen convincing evidence. I studied botany, zoology, and life sciences at Penn State along with a series of other sciences, but have never seen convincing evidence that one species ever gave rise to another that was incapable of reproducing with the parent species. Atheists must accept evolution.

They begin from the premise that God does not exist, therefore any explanation that involves the divine or supernatural must be dismissed without investigation. That leaves only one other practical explanation for the diversity of life; that species can and do change. They point to the fossil record as incontrovertible evidence of such events presuming that any gaps are explainable.

Being so convinced, they get frustrated when we theists do not see the obvious.

It is a non sequitur to believe that macro-evolution is true because micro-evolution is true. To equate the entire evolutionary paradigm with gravity is also a fallacy. Micro-evolution is true, in the sense that DNA can change, but it has not be 'proven' to have true complex creative power.

Evolutionists must rely on the fossil record for that. However, the fossil record doesn't show Darwinian gradualism, it shows mostly abrupt appearance, and is 100% compatible with beliefs in special creation. And Punctuated Equilibrium doesn't have a mechanism that works.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.