Russ this is the exact same post you answered me with on the Turkey thread. You and Bex seem to be making the point that human beings could not have evolved by chance. That there must be a God "building" all the life we see.

What is wrong with the idea that evolution is God's way of doing the building?

Let me make two point here. First, the theory of abiogenesis is separate from the theory of evolution. I've made this clear a number of times. Evolution does not attempt to explain how life began, but what happened to it once it did. Mutation and natural selection are fundamental ways in which this works. Life on earth was nothing more than unicellular organisms for a few billion years, before more complex life arose. That is a lot of time for mutation and natural selection to be working on those simple organisms at a basic level. Think of how many organisms there would have been in the seas, in which these prcesses were working for so much time that it's difficult to imagine.

As for you idea of building houses from 20 kinds of bricks, you only need 4 letters: A,G,C,T.

What's more, you seem to be looking at the "ladder" idea of evolution again -- that the goal of evolution was to produce us, and that this is statistically impossible. 2 ideas here. One, evolution is a random process and we happened to be a result of that. Much science fiction has been written on speculations about what future intelligent species on earth could be like. Two, as I said, maybe we're not so random. Evolution could be God's will in action.

Either way, the universe is the universe no matter what one's belief system is. Why should our interpretations of it somehow change or threaten what God is, if God is timeless, omnipotent and omniscient? Surely looking at the evidence and interpreting it is better than trying to explain it away?