I have not been part of this thread, but it is obvious to me that there was a creator. He (get that, He) obviously used some sort of evolution as a tool.
That is just my opinion.
Just think, out of all of everything, this may be the only place anywhere in the entire universe that has blue sky, birds, dogs, cats, beautiful women, spring breezes, fine wine, etc. How could you not believe that there was an overwhelming intelligence to give us all this.
PS, where there is intelligence, there is design.
He (get that, He) obviously used some sort of evolution as a tool...PS, where there is intelligence, there is design
Actually, design is evidence of intelligence. The inverse does not necessarily hold true.
Evolution is only obvious based on how broadly one chooses to define it, and how much someone is willing to view the evidence without wearing their materialist blinders.
The adherents of both use ad hominems and various other hystrionics to shout down their opposition.
When the adherents of both are not using outright frauds to prop up their respective world views, they resort to questionable research, controversial evidence, logical fallacies and contradictions and specious arguments to confuse the issues and change the subject.
Darwin was a racist. Gould was a Marxist. Al Gore is a Socialist. The "science" was and is used to perpetuate their respective world views of man and his relationships to other men and the world around them. Neither Darwin nor Gore were qualified to write scientifically on their respective subjects. And while Gould was a scientist, even he questioned the mechanics of natural selection and the fossil record as "proofs" of Darwinian evolution. (In other words, there is hardly a consensus - even among evolutionists - just how all this evolution occured, only that - like all "true believers" - they assert it's true).
Both evolution and man-caused global warming exist to ensure one thing: that research grants keep flowing into university coffers. Both are big business.
The only difference between the two is that evolution as a world view has been around a lot longer. That, however, does not make it any more true than the incessant screaming lefties make about their beloved dogma, human-caused global warming.