> Genetic analysis? I don't think so.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Look: there's a reason why the animals we look most like - the great apes - have gene codes most like ours.
> I cannot imagine that it is an ongoing process
Your failure of imagination puts strictures on neither the natural world nor God to create biodivesity via mutation and natural selection.
"Your failure of imagination"
PRECISELY!!!!! You have just proven my point. I have written repeatedly that the theory of evolution is an exercise in...IMAGINATION. and here you are berating me for a "lack" of imagination. In short, also, a lack of faith - as what is imagination, but faith in something that cannot be proven. Imagination is NOT science. It might at some point lead to something that is part of science, as Jules Vernes imagination no doubt helped to pave the way for some experiments and inventions, but it is not, in and of itself, science. It is in fact, ANTI-science. It is part of a belief system.