The long evolutionary story of how his ancestors evolved to become our ancestors is perhaps the greatest story on Earth.  I cannot see how such a story does not make a more compelling case for the existence of God than yours.  Consider Michael Shermer in Why Darwin Matters, who asks, “The glory of the creation commands reverence regardless of when creation took place.  And compared to omniscience and omnipotence, what difference does it make how God created life – via spoken word or via natural forces?”  He continues:

Intelligent design creationism reduces God to an artificer, a mere watchmaker piecing together life out of available parts in a cosmic warehouse.  If God is a being in space and time, it means that He is restrained by the laws of nature and the contingencies of chance, just like all other beings of this world.  An omniscient and omnipotent God must be above such constraints, not subject to nature and chance…Calling God a watchmaker is delimiting.

You and I both surely agree that the physical evidence for evolution is astounding.  E.O. Wilson says, “Would God have been so deceptive as to salt the earth with so much misleading evidence?”  It would seem so, if we were to believe the creationists and proponents of intelligent design when they mention that there are gaps in the fossil record.