Joanne,
You write, "You may want to look at the scientific evidence for evolution. If you really think it is unproven, I think you don't understand."
I did not make my viewpoint clear. IMO, Evolution happens and has done since the creation of this universe. The bone of contention here is the question of how it works.
Some like to think of the evolutionary process as something purely mechanical, unintelligent, random, things changing by chance, and so on. Others see it as the work of an Intelligent Designer but, importantly, not a Designer in the Religious or spiritual sense. Then there are those who see the workings of evolution as a blend of these two extremes. The pertinent point here is that all three schools of thought have their learned supporters from the relevant scientific fraternities.
There is a wealth of evidence for evolution, of that there is no doubt. And over the last hundred years or so great advances have been made in understanding how evolution may, and in some cases does work. But despite this the Scientific Method demands - does it not? - that we continue to refer to the phenomenon as a Theory of Evolution for the simple reason it and how it works are not totally scientifically proven facts.
I'm constantly suprised by people who automatically assume that if you question the Darwinian or Neo-Darwinian view of how evolution works, you are in effect denying the existence of evolution. It's very much akin to the assumption by some people that if you say UFOs are not extra-terrestial vehicles, you are actually saying, and wrongly to boot in their opinion, that there are no other intelligent life forms in the Universe.
BTW, if a person does not believe a thing to be proven, it does not necessarily follow that they therefore do not understand or are ignorant of the evidence for that thing.
Evidence of any kind is always open to different interpretations, and the consensus is not always correct.
In South America grows a particular type of plant (an orchid, I think) that is totally dependent on a particular type of bird (a species of Humming Bird, I believe). The plant and the bird are in perfect and total symbiosis. Without one, the other will die. Somewhere in Africa lives a extraordinarily flat tortoise that lives or hides in narrow clefts in the rocks in its territory. Until Darwinists/Evolutionists can explain how these fascinating and complex states of affairs evolved purely through chance, random mutation, etc., I for one shall continue to consider the jury still out on whether evolution is purely and totally mechanistic or involves at least an element of I.D.
MJT