How many users on these boards actually support "The Theory of Evolution"?

[Final-Fan]

From what you're saying (in the final paragraph) I suspect you're reacting more to fundamentalists' CLAIMS about what evolution explains more than the actual science itself. For instance, if you mean God created the simplest life and then it evolved (which He intended it to do) then that in no way contradicts evolution.

Even if you want to use "evolution" as an umbrella term for evolution, abiogenesis, origin of the universe, etc.: as far as abiogenesis is concerned, even if we prove that it COULD have happened by itself, there is no way to prove that it DID. I think the same would probably be true of the origin of the universe.

Going back to earlier parts of your post:

Irreducible complexity: The quoted statement does not, I think, account for the possibility that those parts were previously useful separately, but evolved to become (let's say) more effective working together, with the side effect that they were no longer of any use separately (which probably wouldn't even harm the organism's effectiveness).

Time factor: I'm pretty sure I've seen explanations of how that objection is not well-founded.
No new information: Ditto. Also, what do you mean exactly by "no new information"?
(If you want to debate these, I can't promise I'll be able to muster the energy but I'll try.)

Consciousness: The thing is, the other position is that you are saying that you are (your consciousness is) an exception to evolution. Absent some other mechanism by which consciousness could come to be, evolution is the default, as that's how all living things (including you) were physically developed, including your brain (so goes the theory).