DAVID: A perfect neutral view of evolution, which leaves out any philosophic or theologic consideration of the issue of the appearance of humans, Fine for agnostics or atheists. dhw:...All of these contradictions disappear if you remove the philosophical shackles of evolutionary anthropocentrism, or alternatively the decisive know-it-all-from-the-beginning infallibility of your God. And neither of these solutions requires you to be an agnostic or an atheist!-DAVID: Thanks for the advice but it doesn't answer the issue of humans appearing against all odds.-Removing the second set of shackles does. But instead of making your God decisively infallible, as you want him to be, it allows him to learn by experimentation and experience.