Commonalities speak just as much to a common designer as they do to a common process.
In all of this, though, rings the words of a 70’s song with the line “God save the people from despair.”
Too often we are slow to communicate ideas to the regular folk. But Jesus thanked His Father that He had revealed the things of the Kingdom of Heaven to the simple, and not to the worldly wise.
These wise ones reject the truth of the Kingdom, not because they are busy seeking truth, but because they are not of His children to begin with....and most never will be.
Our God who can raise up children of Abraham from these stones....
Our God who can raise up children of Abraham from these stones....
Scientists understand this very important principle - and yet atheists who advocate their worldview under the color of science seem to ignore it or use it whichever is convenient to their objective at the time.
Ditto for the principle, very important in physics, that the absence of evidence is evidence of absence. The one advocating either a worldview or a theory in the historical sciences (anthropology, archeology, evolution, Egyptology, etc.) is liable to use it or the opposite of it, whichever is convenient at the time.
Ditto for the choice of probability - combinatorics or Bayesian - depending on which one in convenient at the time, to argue for or against a worldview or theory.
Ditto for complexity models, whichever is convenient.
But when any such thing is used to argue about God, it is all vanity, because...
That a person can perceive a correlation or coincidence in nature does not establish cause/effect or prove that God did not do it either through nature or by supernaturally intervening in nature. It only establishes that that particular coincidence or correlation exists in nature. As Einstein said "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
And there is only one way to know of a certainty that God is the Creator. But just like I cannot know your mind, man cannot know the mind of God except as God Himself reveals it to him.
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. - I Corinthians 2:6-16
And no doubt there are many who would demand equal spiritual perception as well. But that too is vanity.
God reveals Himself according to His own will, selectively and not equally.(emphasis mine:)
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. - Romans 8:9
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. - John 1:12-13
"...The find casts important new light on the evolution of humanity’s upright stride, suggesting that Homo erectus, an ancestral species that emerged about 1.8 million years ago, walked with an upright gait little different from our own..."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5812463.ece
While you are definitely not going to want to call this slope-browed, hairy guy "Dad", his gait and footprint is just like our own.
On another note, I found it interesting that most humans' little toe never touchs the ground! (Ask your Podiatrist).
This is consistent with the model for mammalian species to have five fingers and five toes. (Or, in some mammalians' skeletal reminders of five fingers and five toes hidden beneath skin).
I thought perhaps it was due to the genetic limitations of the 10,000 or so human beings that survived the Sumatra super-vocanic cataclysm of 74,000 years ago; however, based on the article, it appears to have been ingrained in our DNA some 1.8M years ago.
Louis Leakey should have been looking in that layer of volcanic soil (where the footprints were found). :)
More on the recent development of blue-eyed people and the cataclysm (near bottom of page).
http://survive2012.com/news/labels/evolution.html
Another article describes the Sumatra super-volcano that reduced the Neandertal and Cro-Magnon populations to a few thousand individuals 74,000 years ago: http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1202/1202blast.txt
The article points out that the Yellowstone Park super-volcano could cause another "leap" in human evolution, decimating Humanity's DNA pool to a few thousand "fit-and-savvy-survivors" once again.