DAVID's comment: As with other aspects of development, it appears God uses an evolutionary process to create an Earth suitable for life.

Anyone who believes in God and in evolution will agree that God used an evolutionary process to create life. And people who do not believe in God will argue that chance governs it. But I wonder how many of your fellow theists believe God created this process, could/couldn't control it, deliberately used it for the purpose of creating humans, but was forced to design every other life form extant and extinct before he could reach his goal.