dhw: But you have gone straight back to the four-part position that I put to you on 16 March and which you rejected on 17 March! I even pointed out that the positions were not necessarily mutually exclusive. I could hardly have been more helpful!-I believe God did not do it absent some form of evolutionary process. I reject Number 4! If I accepted straight creationism, I wouldn't have all the puzzlement. Some form of evolution appears present. Would God be fooling me and lots of us? Not reasonable. But there are enough discrepancies' in simple common descent such as no genetic tree, convergence, saltation's, punctuated equilibrium contrived theory, etc. to strongly suggest theistic guidance as more complex life unfolded.