[Liberty1970]

Interesting. One could rationalize from an evolutionary view that tool use has driven the need for fine motor skills. But such abilities would also be useful without tools, and chimps use tools to some degree as well. If anything I would expect that natural selection would push chimps harder for such skills, because the rise of technological aids in human society has reduced any selective influence on such motor skill development; if anything I would expect declining fine motor capabilities in the human population.

The finer motor capabilities look to be a combination of biomechanical adaptations and control (neural) adaptations. There is no point in having one without the other, so it would not be reasonable to conclude that these could evolve without an intelligent designer, even without know the further details of the complexity involved.

[GodGunsGuts]

All good points. I’m off to go sailing off the coast of sunny...err...partly cloudy S. California. I will be back to post some more once I am done enjoying and marveling at God’s wondrous creation! :o)