"You have a bunch of people on this forum who are supposed to believe evolution because jcl or Matt_Aufderheide say so. "

everyone is under influences.. you, me and matt or jcl.
The only important thing is that you can differ the influences in false and true (or also maybe true/false).

"Theres no data to draw conclusions from--its a complete fabrication on your part. You cannot just say that 99.99 % of all scientists accept evolution, you have no proof of that whatsoever. Are we supposed to believe you because you are the boss of Conitec?"

have you searched for data? you'll find a lot of data why and how much scientist believe in a religon / mircales etc. Why? because this people are suprised about this fact.

BTW: You'll find a "proof" to everything in the world wide web. No matter if this proof is correct or not.

" It doesnt make any difference what you were taught, it only matters what you believed. Im not saying I agree with the age of the earth being 5000 years, but I am curious as to why you believe it is not. What exactly do you know about radiometric dating?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth

(btw.. have a look at the creation date of the earth )