Your reason for accepting evolution

We'd expect that whenever we develop a dating pattern, the dates will be consistent with natural history and biology.

Either you are not familiar with how inconsistent the dating methods are, or you are blindly disregarding dates that don't match your predictions that were formulated from your evolutionary bias, as is often the case. Will you submit to that statement or do we need to bring up that specific discussion with MANY examples?

we'd expect to find a pattern emerging in the fossil record which showed a nested hierarchy of forms. We'd expect that pattern to be defined it terms of age and location.

Well, only if the geological layers were formed as the uniformatarian theory presumes. But they don’t, do they? They are formed rapidly with certain types of animals being caught, buried, and sorted by several factors including location, density, speed, cunningness and many others. This sounds like something that would happen in a FLOOD scenario (hint, hint).Let me ask you something else: Do you really believe that fossils form over great periods of time? Ever see a dead animal lay around for a week? Not much left to turn into a fossil, is there? They need to be buried quickly with water/minerals/pressure/etc.

whereas creation is a belief based on ideas created by men who were ignorant to the basic laws of physics

Interesting that you don’t think evolution is a belief based on ideas created by men. The only other alternative was that the idea was revealed to them supernaturally. Now there’s a problem.Also interesting that you point out only those who are ignorant of the basic laws of physics believe in and made up the creation story. Does that mean that if you understand the laws of physics that you would naturally believe in evolution? I wonder how that argument would hold up in front of Isaac Newton, who discovered many of the laws? I don’t think it would do so well since he believed in a Literal 6 day creation about 6,000 years ago and that Noah’s' flood was responsible for most of the geology found today. In fact, he wrote extensively against atheism and for creationism and said "We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever."It seems to me if you are basing your belief of what you stated then you are basing it on misinformation, as is most always the case when someone chooses to believe in evolution.