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While Darwin's observations about the mechanics of natural selection are demonstrable, that does not mean his leap of faith in extending that model to the entire developmental history of species is a satisfactory theory. It has serious problems that, as research progresses, have not been addressed and appear to be casting more doubt upon his extension.

A credible effort to break out of that intellectual straitjacket to posit and test other ideas does not warrant flippant denigration. In that process one may find a broader and more interesting universe than we might have supposed. It is in the best tradition of the scientific method and I see little reason why such work doesn't warrant attention.

My opinion is that we may never know how the world came to be and that such ignorance may yet come to be seen as a blessing. To solve all such problems would leave us a mighty boring world. As it is, we have the exciting prospect of continuing research and discovery into ever more complex and inscrutable problems, no matter what the field.

Either way, creation or evolution are both founded in faith. One renders us as animals, free to behave as we wish as long as we get away with it. The other nurtures us as human beings, mandated by God to obey His Laws on pain of damnation. Guess which one is the demonstrably superior model for a species as a whole?

It is my observation, having worked in nature for a number of years, that every individual, regardless of species competes in its own interest and attempts to modify its habitat to meet its own preferences as an individual at the expense of its competitors. Unfortunately for our model species, as the population of individuals succeeds, they become succeeded. The modification of habitat critically depletes key resources that supported the existence of the species and it crashes. Manfred Eigen (a Nobel winner in chemistry in 1967) and Ruthild Winkler proved it mathematically.

Given that evolution, as a model, while individually preferable is collectively destructive to any species, perhaps there is more to the story of God's Laws than you have perhaps considered.