Even fossil experts will admit that transitional life forms are extremely rare. And some would say those rare examples take some imagination to believe. In contrast, the idea that the various life forms were the result of design, not chance, is at least as believable as the so-called scientific explanation. Maybe you can't prove it with today's scientific methods, but you can't disprove it either. And a great number of people hold this view.
Evolution is a theory in trouble.
It is every bit as much a philosophical belief as creation. Most classroom material on the subject is woefully out of date. Religion has nothing to fear from evolution because evolution simply isn't true. But if Blumner is trying to say that evolution and the Bible are compatible, that is not true. The Bible teaches that death did not enter the world until after Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden.