//Ironically it was through reading the Origin of the Species and many other references on Darwinism that I found the picture wasn’t so clear. That natural selection and random mutation and even neo-darwinism didn’t explain evolution fully. It was my hunger for science that led to the conclusion that there was more going on//
That largely parallels some of my experiences.
Oh, I accept “natural selection” as a fact, experimentally it can be repeated. Heck, the evidence is, well, evident. Just look at the wolf, the dachshund, and the poodle, the horse, the donkey, and the zebra, on and on.
However, observing this is entirely consistent with the original “kind” having all the genetic information necessary to produce all the variants of that kind.