Trillions of simultaneous processes over an entire planet for billions of years can do some impressive things.
Parallel processing is always faster.
Interesting point, but you realized that NO life in any form existed until only a billion years ago. The first few billion were spent just getting the proper conditions for life to evolve (changing the atmosphere from a reducing one to an oxidizing one, etc.). Seems the time for such an amazing process to occur was shorter than you may think. I agree with your tagline, though. God could have used evolution and a process to create life as it is but I absolutely believe that man was made in God's image and so I don't know about the evolution from apes part.
Nice story. Best of all you can tell it any way you want.
Not when Amdahl's Law bites you on the Ass!
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