re: #932 PatriotLizardoid

I haven’t done a whole lot of research (I have a full time job and 2 kids you know), but I do have a zoology degree from the University of Washington, am a strong proponent of evolutionary biology and whenever I can I point out concepts of natural selection to my kiddos. THAT SAID, I am also a devout Christian and don’t give one patooty what any pastor OR scientist says. Evolution by natural selection IS intelligent design of the highest, most elegant order. I didn’t learn to believe in God until I went tide pooling.

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so

..hmm… and how might the earth do such a thing?

Well, it had plenty of resources ( all the elements and their molecular compound combinations) and plenty of energy (from the sun and from undersea vents) and a helluva lotta time (4 1/2 billion - not million - years), plus a handy-dandy mechanism called evolution, comprised of, among other components, random genetic evolution and nonrandom environmental selection, so it makes eminent sense that it blindly blundered into a way.