Genetic evidence — of what?
I can "see" the genetic evidence, yet still ask: of what is it the evidence? Do you assert it is evidence of a purely material process unfolding more or less randomly in space and time? That nothing else is involved?
If so, then how do you know that?
Then again, we might ask: What is DNA? Is it the "fount" of life? If so, then how come it's exactly the same whether the creature it describes is alive or dead?
Or could it be, rather, a master code that decrypts all the relevant information needed by the particular living organism being transmitted to it by a nonphemomenal, extra-spatial, extra-temporal source; i.e., a source existing outside the four-dimensional spacetime of normative human experience?
Oh, I forgot: This is the type of question that an atheist simply refuses to ask.
But there is hope for you, tokenatheist; because you claim to be only a "token" atheist. Maybe that means you really aren't a "real" atheist after all.
Thank you so much for writing!
That is a lot of words to simply say god did it.
Information theory trumps DNA evidence - every time.
DNA is just "a" message. It is not life. DNA survives physical death.
Information, on the other hand, is the reduction of uncertainty [Shannon entropy] in the receiver or molecular machine in going from a before state to an after state. It is not the message. It is the successful communication of the message.
Science has not yet determined a viable theory for the origin of information in this universe.
To paraphrase Jastrow, one day when the scientists climb the last mountain of knowledge they'll be greeted by the theologians who have been waiting for them all along.