"Evolution Takes so Much More Faith..."

Please tell me one example of how this is the case. One example. I'll stop you right there. There is none.

As far as evidence is concerned, there is too much to count: comparative organs, comparative bone structure, comparative genes, careful analysis of vestigial traits, species distribution, and fossil evidence. A whales bones contain a bone structure that would normally be used by creatures that walked on legs, and the whale is not using these. And did you know that an ordinary house fly has about half of the same genes that a human has? Those are just two examples.

So no, evolution does not take more faith than your bronze-age fairy tale does. Try harder next time.

"But nature is so complex..."

I've heard this one a lot. The natural world is really complex, and that means that there must be a designer. This is simply not true.

Natural selection gives the illusion that the natural world is complex. Let's look here.

We have bees adapting to the environment by getting their "waggle dance." We have roses getting protection with their thorns. The fossil record shows that they did not have this a few million years ago. This was recent. Plants and animals evolve, and adapt to their environment. The advantageous "design" (for lack of a better word) gets spread and the obsolete adaptations die out. This is how adaptation works. It is not fair to say that nature is "so complex." It is, in the sense that it has to be, or most of it would die out.

Also, a fair point would be that if nature was designed, it must have been made by a poor designer. We breath and eat out of the same tube. Our bones are easily broken. If we drink too much, our body reacts in a negative way. We have allergies, and while it works, it works poorly for us. We are just badly designed in general.

So no, we are not complex because we are complex.

"Why are there still monkeys?"

This is the stupidest argument I have seen. In general. And like most arguments, it requires a simple explanation.

We did not evolve from modern monkeys. We evolved from primitive monkeys, or rather, primitive apes. This species eventually "took part" (for lack of better phrasing) in speciation.

Now, speciation is where an ancestor species branches off into two different daughter species. The primary way of this is either allopatric or quantum speciation. Allopatric speciation is where a part of the geographic population of an ancestor species is isolated and has to adapt to a new enviroment (natural selection). This creates a daughter species (possibly multiple) to the ancestor species.

Quantum speciation is the rapid evolution of daughter species. It works for punctual equilibrium (the rapid change of a species.) It basically works in the same way allopatric speciation does.

This goes for humans and modern monkeys. There was a speciation, in which modern monkeys adapted differently to the enviroment.

Also, you can turn the question on believers: If Adam was made from dust, why is there still dust?

Alas, another fallacious argument.