"His arguments for evolution, on the other hand, don't hold up too well in light of today's scientific data."
You could only possibly believe this if you have no idea what the data actually is.
"He conveniently avoids Intelligent Design, which is a shame."
Actually, he attacks it quite often. He even wrote a book about "design" and how it doesn't appear to exist.
"That was a gaping hole that I would have loved to see filled."
Read The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design.
"Also, recent scientific evidence has proven that all mankind has one common ancestor, the New Eve they call her."
While educated and intelligent people find such naming conventions amusing to play with by alluding to cultural icons, though it does appear to confuse people such as yourself. Here's a hint: she's not the Eve; they are not claiming she is Eve. They were simply making a point using a well known literary figure--sort of like verbal shorthand.
"She is a 60,000-year-old female. Why is that too avoided here? I'm sure Ricky knows all about her."
I would guess because it's a book and books are not updated the instant some new piece of information becomes available. Just look at your Wholly Babble. Half of it hasn't been updated in two thousand years and the other half hasn't been updated in an even longer period.
"To boot, show me the medium-necked giraffe."
Ok. It's called Samotherium.
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"It should be there somewhere in the fossil record. Why isn't it?"
It is. It lived during the Miocene and Pliocene eras, about 23 million to 2.5 million years ago. Took me all of two seconds to look it up.
"Well, I think we all know why."
Yes, we do. It's "not there" because you're too ignorant or too lazy to actually look up such things and, instead, simply claim they don't exist and expect everyone to be like you and not actually look.
"Because evolution, the jumping from one species to another (as opposed to adaptation, penguins and ostriches for example) is merely bad science."
For such bad science it seems to be astoundingly correct about its predictions and incredibly useful in its applications.
