I would agree with Foxy.

Creationists have never bothered with evidence before, their policy is simply to deny, deny, deny.

Well I wondered how long it would take runner to come along.

"The gullible god deniers are so so desperate to find what does not exist that they will continue to pervert science in order to prove their fallacy"

There is your answer TRTL.

Good points people, it's a shame that such painstaking research can be dismissed so easily because it doesn't sit well with some people.

runner, stop for a moment. Consider the possibility you may be wrong.

You said yourself, missing link 5005, as though there are many missing links. Isn't that even more compelling evidence?

I'm willing to consider the existence of a god, even though I don't think it's likely one exists.

I'll accept there are things I don't know when it comes to the origin of life on earth.

Why can't you? You lambast others for being arrogant earth worshippers (though this seems like an erroneous term given that the non-religious don't worship by definition) and yet, you display arrogance in demanding that you have all the answers while refusing to even consider other opinions.

Isn't it rude to dismiss someone's hard work without even a second glance?

"is there any point where evidence would be so overwhelming, where people with any degree of rationality could no longer reject it outright, or at the very least, modify the more simplistic traditional creationist fables to be more inclusive of legitimate (as opposed rejecting evidence contrary to their hypothesis) scientific enquiry?"

I think that we passed that point quite some time ago.

To rephrase the words of another

"Some god believers are so so desperate to ignore what does exist that they will continue to pervert whatever it takes in order to cling to their fallacy"

R0bert

"What evidence would sway creationists?"

Absolute resounding proof God doesn't exist.

There is only one species that has the level of creative intelligence and that is man whose existence is probably not more than 10,000 years old. Lesser species do not exhibit the abstract, aesthetic and mathematical logic that man displays.

In the creation story it states Adam viewed many animal species and did not find a suitable partner. God could have just as easily created many human like creatures but only one had the moral and creative intelligence - man.

Darwin never understood the complexity of the single cell and assumed that by basic reasoning that similar skeletal structures had similar ancestors. There is a level of intelligence in the design of the cell that is impossible for science to replicate life from basic inanimate chemicals.

The very fact that we are debating with intelligent logic yet not able to agree intelligence is present in forming existence indicates a fatal flaw in the logic of those that deny an external intelligence is involved in existence.