[Quix]

Thanks for the ancient perspective and insights.

I think the popular notion of Darwinian evolution is bankrupt wholesale but that's another issue, topic.

I think that the FOUNDATION/substrate/fabric of reality

THAT GOD IS

IS ABSOLUTELY necessary for the diversity and the changes in diversity that we observe. Otherwise, diversity would be too diverse to collect into recognizable clusters of anything.

Kind of like on another thread . . . infants need the stable security of parents and being held lots by parents . . . in order to explore and expand, GROW in diverse ways.

[betty boop]

THAT GOD IS ... IS ABSOLUTELY necessary for the diversity and the changes in diversity that we observe. Otherwise, diversity would be too diverse to collect into recognizable clusters of anything.

I so agree, Quix! Sheer randomness without a guide to the system would play out as maximum entropy -- or heat death -- of the system. With a guide to the system, randomness is constrained to produce the kinds of actual living entities that we observe all around us. Things change, but purposefully.

My view FWIW. Thanks so much for writing!