Again, pastor, it isn't God's word I reject; it's your fallible interpretation of it. Luther once slammed Copernicus for not believing God's word when it said in Joshua that the sun goes about the earth, and I reject that accusation for the same reason that I reject your own. It demonstrates shallow thinking about the Scriptures.
Back to your examples, you're still not telling the whole truth. You mention a few amphibians that look similar to modern taxa, but why don't you mention fossils like Triadobatrachus or Gerobatrachus that are obviously transitional between frogs and salamanders?
When you refer to lizard fossils, why do you make no mention of things like Petrolacosaurus, which is so clearly transitional between modern diapsid lizards and more basal amniotes?
You also mention fossil plants, but you conveniently neglect to mention Runcaria, a species of fossil plant from the Devonian that perfectly shows a transitional morphology between seed plants and more primitive forms:
Indeed, it strikes me that your entire argument against evolution is one from incredulity -- you clearly aren't familiar with those excellent transitional fossils that provide some of the best evidence for evolution in the past. (Either that, or you are blatantly ignoring them.) You might take a lesson from the words of St. Augustine:
Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he hold to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion. [1 Timothy 1.7]
Honestly, as someone in the field of the biological sciences, myself, you come across as someone who has no idea what he is talking about. I get the distinct impression you don't care, though, because you think it's you and God against the world.
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