Grin. Exactly.
Grin. Exactly
Yes they did -- and they did it to discover whether *non-intelligent* processes *without* design could achieve results that the creationists believe could only happen via intelligent design. And it turns out that yes, indeed they can -- the creationists are wrong on that point.
Now, does it really console you in any way to snicker about how the experiment itself was conducted by intelligent beings, when the results undercut the creationist presumptions?
Have you ever heard the phrase, "whistling past the graveyard"?